Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.
I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.
Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.
The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.