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

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

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.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

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.