I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I’m ever actually going to enjoy the music I’m creating.

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.

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

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that’s really vague, but it’s true.

I think that there’s a proliferation of music that is done entirely in the bedroom for an Internet audience, but there’s no way in hell that you could actually kill off a live show, and its importance in the creation of music – it’s just impossible.

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn’t come right away then it’s never going to come at all.

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

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.

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there’s this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.