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.

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.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

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

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