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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But now everyone wants something from me, so it's hard to break away and just be a songwriter.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.