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 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.

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

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

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

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.