Melody is pure intuition. I don't use any thinking brain when I do that. That's totally in the zone.
There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and more or less tuned to people. Something they could understand, something that was beautiful, you know?
That's the best kind of music: the stuff that happens based off intuition.
Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.
What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.
I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Albums tend to dictate what they need. Every time I have made an album it sort of feels like it is decided for me how that album is going to sound; it is not really a cerebral decision where you sit down and decide that you are going to make an album that sounds like 'this.'
I try not to think too hard about music. I like to see where it goes. I try not to give it a direction. I figure out what it is as it's forming. I don't have any goal in mind other than to make the best music I can.
For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus on what feels right before I dispatch to writing.
