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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.