I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.

I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef.