Musician

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.