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James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul. ”

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything. ”

My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something. ”

I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love. ”

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy. ”

It's a powerful thing to be able to write a song. Even the least powerful feeling - like insecurity - that makes you feel weak when you experience it, when you write about it, you are powerful. ”

Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life. ”

Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am. ”

Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live. ”

When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first. ”