When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.