I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.

When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA.

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.