Beeinflusst / Influenced Besitzen / Own Ein Teil / Apart Gefolgt / Followed Gerade / Just Grundsätzlich gilt / Basically Instinkte / Instincts Irgendein / Any Ja wirklich / Really Mein eigenes / My Own Musik / Music Nett / Kind Schottisch / Scottish Traditionell / Traditional
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.
I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.
Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the most. And I relate the most to Simon from 'The Mortal Instruments,' and also Tessa from 'The Infernal Devices.' They're more sort of bookish and shy characters.
I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.
