I’m not saying that it’s hard as a tattoo artist, but the art you do has to be different and you have to learn to put something different into it. A lot of it’s not that hard. A lot of it takes a lot of practice to be able to have a really sharp design that can have the audience react positively. If you want people to have your art on their cars, cars that they may never see, they can really put their faith into your art. You have to think about how you want people to react and what you need to do to make them come out.

You’ve spoken about the art you do being like a kind of a lifestyle. Is that correct?

Yeah, it’s about living the lifestyle and being alive and taking care not only of your own existence but of every living thing around you. I know that sounds a little cliché because a lot of artists work on one song like I do and try to do something really big. That, actually, is very difficult to do. I know it sounds cliché, but to live life like that, you have to be willing because this is one song where it wasn’t very obvious what kind of an artist I was and this is the last song I’d ever make. Then, I had to make sure that the song fit and I got it to the point where I was still happy enough with it that I still wanted to make music. It was like a mini-tour of my life for me. Every day you walk into your house, you are always looking at something in your mind, which is the next song. You go to the park and play the piano. There was one moment where I looked at the mirror and when I went out, I made a decision and made the most profound decision in my life. There is no reason to go to another park. There is never a reason to go to a different place. You just do what you want to do and that’s it. I didn’t ever want to come back to this place in Florida where I am now, so I just went, made another song and went home.

But that still has a special place in your heart.

Yeah, yeah [laughs]. It’s one of those things where you can lose your happiness. You can have all the music that you want to make and be happy, but when it stops, you have to leave the city and go somewhere else. This was like a last resort. When we finished that album,

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