Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

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

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.

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

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

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 moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.