I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

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.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.