Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

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

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

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.