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.

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

I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appealing about it, but also there's something that feels alien to me, as a cynical Irish man.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

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.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.