I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms, or even during my normal workday. When I was at Google it was like you wake up at 7 and then you get home by 7 and you start your second job of music. So now I get to focus all my efforts on music, travel and play shows and do all of this stuff. That's the difference - That's all my life is, all day.

It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.