I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.