I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

I do not think good art comes from comfort. While from a humanistic standpoint I would have much rather been at my home that I own, surrounded by friends and family and controlling my environment completely.

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

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.