When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting."

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.