When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

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.

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

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

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