Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.

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

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.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

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

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.