"My parents were hippies, but they were Frank Zappa hippies, you know? They were putting Miles Davis' on my headphones when I was two years old. I grew up listening to ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'', ''Close to the Edge'' by Yes, King Crimson's ''Red''. All that stuff was jamming at my house at full volume all the time when I was a baby, along with Coltrane's ''Love Supreme'', Stevie Wonder--''Innervisions''-- stuff like that. Constantly."

“My sister, Skye's, suicide is something I've been dealing with for 20 years. I wanted to lift her up and put her name out there forever. It was the most deeply emotional moment of my life, and always with suicide there's a lot of guilt that comes with it. The whole story is my metaphor for if I'd been able to come in and pick her up and save her from that situation...everybody experiences loss. At some point in your life you will lose someone near and dear to you and I'm lucky enough to have some kind of artistic platform to immortalise it, to have some kind of tribute. We owe it as artists to come from the deepest place possible; that's art."