I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.

I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

I'm not into branding - I'm trying to be organic to who I am on every level. I do really connect to being a part of the working class. Those are my roots. My family [consists of] farmers from Portugal, builders, housekeepers and stonemasons.

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.