When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything is about being attached to the past and being afraid of moving forward, afraid of that big dive or step and losing what was.

Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy people (although, I've had my moments of that as well). I think it was just years of maybe moving slightly away from it but always coming back to it as the thing that I'm best at.

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.