Musician

It's very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, 'Oh yeah, I can do it over and over. I can sing at the top of my range for this whole song.' But when you're doing it every night on the road, it's pretty intense.

I always like surprising people and doing things at a young age and, I don't know, trying to do them at a higher caliber than what you'd normally think. I'm not saying I'm a virtuoso, but I always challenge myself.

I don't like washing away your body's natural oils and pheromones. Those are good. You have to keep those.

I really like Colin Blunstone, the lead singer of the Zombies.

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.

My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band. That's kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

I feel like I'm never playing the same sized venues within two or three shows. It keeps me and the band fit in a way. It keeps us on our toes just because you don't get used to one size and one energy. It's good to switch it up.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

I don't want to make a living. I want to make a life.

My music diet growing up was lots of sugar. Lots of retro-pop sugar. Motown, disco. A lot of English rock, like the Turtles, the Zombies, Bowie and stuff like that.

No one pursued music professionally in my family but they are all music lovers.

I'm not growing out my hair just to be androgynous.

When I first moved to L.A., I lived in the Hills in kind of a wooded area that was just really chill.

I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, 'The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.' They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I'm just always trying to do that.

To make a genuine record, it takes more than a cool beat and some auto tune.

I don't wash my hair that often, to be honest.