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

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.

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.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

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

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers.