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.

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.