The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.