We don't try to make a specifically commercially approachable kind of record. We're just trying to make the music we normally play and these are the audio choices that we have made for how to present the record.
I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.
I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.