There's something really precious in that - if you try to tame something that's meant to be wild you wind up jeopardizing the nature of why it exists.

- Mikky Ekko

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I co…

- Mikky Ekko

Smile, the worst is yet to come.

- Mikky Ekko

The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically al…

- Mikky Ekko

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

- Mikky Ekko

When I started that's how I wrote because I didn't know any better. I was just like "I want to make music." Then there were all these things that I l…

- Mikky Ekko

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the clas…

- Mikky Ekko

Everybody's able to pour into each other creatively, and pop into the studio and pop out. It feels like a community. As an artistic community I think…

- Mikky Ekko

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of h…

- Mikky Ekko