It's very easy to fall back unto my old ways when I'm working a lot. It's important for me to continue to find solitude and peace in nature and escape the city and the industry as much as possible. That's where I reconnect and remind myself what I learned in that time in the woods when I was isolated and I recharge myself. If I don't have that, it would be really easy for me to fall apart again.

I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.