Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.