Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.
Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.
It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!
There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.
I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.
Different cultures have different audiences.
In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.
I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
I feel really good about the future and working with people.
