My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling like they've seen something singular. It's not about smashing someone over the head from the jump-off.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybody's got an agenda and everybody's like, "What do you do?" "Where are you going?" Or it's like, "What do you know?" And I'm not on a grind - I was there to make music and to meet people but I wasn't hustling for anything.

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.