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

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

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

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.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

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.'

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.