I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.