The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth.

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make.

I'm trying to be like, "Hey, dude, you're super happy, this is everything you've ever dreamed of - if you don't have somebody to hold hands with right now, everything's going to be OK, bro."

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

Hopefully, most days, you're like, "This is sweet. I wake up and do the things that I do and I'm usually smiling." That's how my dad is with his job.

With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.