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

It's a weird thing to be nineteen and be in the public eye. It was a crazy thing, it was a big deal to me, and it changed me in a lot of ways. And now that it's five, six years later, I wanted to look back at that, the start of it all, the excitement and the naïveté about it, and it just fascinated me to reflect on all that.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

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

I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'

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

It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit.