I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.