I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.