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….

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

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation..

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….

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

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer..

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….

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice..

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape..

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

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options..

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

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….

At the end of the day music is a grind. You're constantly working at it and even with playing shows as well. If your schedule isn't planned right it ….

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

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that a….

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell pr….

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

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenti….

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….

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..