I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.