If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.

The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.