Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

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

I tried to go to community college for a while, and it's a funny story. I walked into the English class on the first day, and they told us to write about what we did over the summer. I can't remember exactly, but I think I walked out exactly at that point and went to the office to ask for my money back.

I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.

I love the community and the entertainment too much. I'm used to it - it's what I saw first.

I released that side of things really as kind of an introduction to where I came from musically, back in the day when all I had was a keyboard, a drum machine, and a four-track. So I was doing these little synth-pop ditties, and it's how I learned to write.