I want a song that raises the hair on the back of my neck when I sing it live and I want to feel it every time.

I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It's funny because I could feel myself creating a formula and sticking with it and I just told myself, 'That's not me, that's not really how I am, god forbid I have developed a formula - it's music; songwriting.' It's heretic, honestly, in the church of music, so I had to unwind a few tricks in order to get past it.

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.'

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.

I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.