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When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

Albums take a lot out of you.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.