Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...