I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.