There's no point beating yourself up about it. The mistake was made, but the moment has passed. Everyone makes mistakes, and you just have to accept it, move on and do better. It's about accepting who you are, flaws and all. My music has always been performance-driven, and it's even more so now. I don't care as much now as I used to about making mistakes. It's not something that happens in a single moment – it's a process. But I think it helped me let loose on stage, a little. Coming out of it victorious, did your perspective on music, and life itself, change? Did it also affect your live performances in any way? It kept me strong, mentally and emotionally.Ĭancer's a really heavy thing to deal with. I did other things in the meantime, I was writing a lot of music. I couldn't perform past that stage because it was too taxing. I had one show without hair, but that's it. It was probably just the first month of the treatment that I was still performing. I performed during chemotherapy, just a little.
You were diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of years ago – our sincere congratulations on beating that – and you toured while going through chemotherapy, tell us about that. Just because it's pop, it doesn't mean it has to be cheap. I still love progressive music, but performance-wise, pop-like structures and songs flow better. The pop structures work, and you simply can't deny that. Performing with that style of music was a game-changer for me. I could come up with songs that were appealing to a large base of people, but still feel comfortable because of the irregular qualities that connected with me. Once I started allowing the concept of irregularities into the music, everything changed. I also found it hard to make songs that are not of a regular structure. And I performed to support that record, and that was difficult for me. That's another weird album, it's a little progressive, and the sounds are constantly changing. The first record came out when I was 18, but the first LP came out when I was 24. I think the fact that I started performing changed something. Looking back, what would you say influenced your change in musical style?
If I listened to that first record today, I'd cringe a bit, but I'm still glad I did it. That's how you open other doors, just knowing that you can do it. I'm glad, though. Sometimes, you need to do things you're not comfortable with. I did everything by myself in my room and a friend told me, "Listen, you need to put this out", and I just did it. I actually never had that feeling with the first record. How long did it take for you to feel comfortable with your work and to put it out? You put out your first record when you were 18. As a teenager and in my early twenties, it was more acoustic and lo-fi. It took awhile, though, to really figure things out. My dad's taste in music was always more along the lines of jazz, the songs on the radio were always pop, and my mom had a little bit more of a rock influence.Īll of those different genres incorporated into my sound and the things that I like to do. I would say it's a culmination of the entirety of everything I've ever heard.
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