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

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appealing about it, but also there's something that feels alien to me, as a cynical Irish man.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.