He values authenticity and creativity when it comes to making his songs

     “I love hearing different music [and] I love hearing authentic music,” Swann said. “It’s really just me experimenting and having fun, seeing what I'm capable of and challenging myself, and also it depends on what I'm inspired by at the time.”

     Swann has come across many challenges while creating music, he overcomes them by thinking about why he still creates music and who he is doing it. He likes to reminisce on the entire process of making songs from start to finish.

     “I think that my favorite part of making music is that proud feeling after I have taken something [like] an image in my mind and made it into a real-life song,” Swann said.

     Emotion affects his creative process by influencing his thoughts and the stories that he wants to tell and the emotions that he wants to portray through his songs.

     “If I'm feeling very happy, I would probably make more happy things,” Swann said. It shapes the music that I make.”

     Since Swann is an only child, his parents are very supportive of his interests, especially his music. They have helped him find his voice.

     “[They’re] my biggest support when it comes to music ever since I made my first song, [they] were always helping me out,” Swann said.

     Swann has learned that mistakes can be a good thing and that everything happens for a reason.

     “There are times whenever I make a song, [I] put an instrument at the wrong pitch and it sounds better than whatever I was originally trying to do and then I just build off that,” Swann said. ” I guess what I have learned is [to] just always build off my mistakes.”

     He plans to never stop making music because he wants to see where the flow of music takes him.

     “...It may always just stay a side hobby and something I do for fun, the sky's the limit and I don't know what the future holds,” Swann said.

     Swann’s advice to anyone that wants to start making music is to go for it. 

     “...Even if a million people dislike it there's a million more people that will like it, and that goes for anything you put out there in the world because nobody's perfect [and we’re all unique],” Swann said.