Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music….

Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my f….

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out..

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person..

I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know y….

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things..

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work..

I'm not an L.A. guy. I don't take meetings - you know what I mean? I don't really know how to interact very well with people in L.A. because everybod….

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college..

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will..

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least..

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic..

I'm learning on the guitar all the time..

I do not think good art comes from comfort. While from a humanistic standpoint I would have much rather been at my home that I own, surrounded by fri….

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky..

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene..

I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry..

Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted ….

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut..

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly..

I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appeali….