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

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.

As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words.

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.

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

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.

I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.