It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.

Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.