When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

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.

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.