Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.

I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.

When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.