When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and enc….

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making..

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us….

I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me that if I relied solely on cr….

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye. And something I a….

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive..

I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music..

You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and….

There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a new skin and see the world through a d….

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing a….

A few years ago, I had an interest in making things that felt more like "pieces." That was when I was making a lot of stuff that you could call beats….

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most p….

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye..

It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of makin….

Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it..

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music..

If I crave a frequency in the mid, I'll just drag in a sound and try to mold it into what feels right. It happens very quickly. And if I've been maki….

It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, ….

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's….

I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head..

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "….