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 have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

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

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 was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.