He believes that the most profound and authentic music is created by embracing pain and vulnerability rather than avoiding or engineering it.

“I really have noticed that like if you can just like express it in an honest, calm way, most likely a more beautiful thing is going to come through that than what you desired, you know?”

The speaker claims that they must be fully sober to be effective in their creative and professional work.

“I have to be completely 100% sober to be effective like in any relationships with people, like anything important, you know? Um, so, no. No. And that'll make me depressed because months, years will go by. I'm using and I'm not writing. I'm not recording.”