For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

I don’t see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don’t like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she’s trying to get you to be someone you’re not, she’s in the wrong.

I’m really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

I don’t like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I’m good with telling people what I think, too, but I don’t know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

I don’t want to put out something I’m not psyched on just because I finished it. That’s the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don’t want to put out something I wouldn’t listen to.

Eh. Hipster’s not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really...

He’s writing what I’m singing, and I’m writing what he’s playing.