I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.

I'd rather proliferate funny little rumors than not.

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.