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

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

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

I always knew I wanted to do music, but it took me a long time to figure out how to exactly do that. With my first record deal, everything kinda fell apart. I wasn't ready for it, I didn't know how to handle the business side at all. I thought as soon as I got a record deal, everything would fall into place and I wouldn't have to really do any work anymore. I could just make music, and be successful. Well that was not the case and everything fell apart for a period of time.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.