That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.