Love Spells makes the kind of music that demands interpretation. His songs sit somewhere between longing and memory, paired with hazy production and emotionally loaded lyrics, while his visuals carry the cinematic quality of someone carefully constructing a world around them. It's the sort of work that encourages listeners to search for hidden meanings and dissect every lyric, every pause, every stylistic choice. Going into our conversation, I expected someone equally elusive.

Instead, I met someone remarkably direct.

Throughout our conversation, I found myself projecting ideas onto his work. To me, his music always felt intimate, but never entirely revealing. His visuals evoked a kind of nostalgia that feels difficult to place. Love Spells seemed like a carefully crafted alter ego. Almost every time, he gently rejected the premise. Mystery, he tells me, "is not important to me at all." He isn't interested in separating the artist from the person behind it either. "I never like to separate the art from myself," he says. "It doesn't help me to separate."

It quickly became clear that what listeners often perceive as mystique isn't something he's consciously building. If anything, it's a byproduct of writing honestly.

He describes his songs in surprisingly simple terms; experiences he's lived, stories he's witnessed, conversations he hasn't quite finished having with himself. Sometimes they're about people he knows. Sometimes they're about emotions he hasn't fully understood yet. Rather than constructing a narrative, he seems content documenting whatever happens to surface. Even when he admits there are things he'll never explain outright, he isn't withholding them to appear mystifying, they simply belong in the music more than they do in conversation. "You'll hear it in the music sometimes," he says. "But if you ask me, I probably won't tell you."

That distinction feels important. Love Spells doesn't protect his privacy by creating distance; he protects it by choosing the right medium. Some thoughts belong in a song because that's where they make the most sense.

It's perhaps why his music resonates so deeply with themes of yearning. He admits there are certain memories and people he continually returns to, calling it "an addiction to longing." Yet even those songs refuse to stay fixed. A track that once felt like holding onto someone can eventually become about letting them go. The songs don't change, the person listening to them does, including himself.

That perspective extends to songwriting itself. Unlike many artists who describe music as therapy, Love Spells doesn't believe writing offers immediate resolution. Releasing a song doesn't suddenly bring clarity or closure. "I still feel the exact same after I release a song," he admits. Understanding only comes later, once time has changed his relationship to the experience.

The same instinct shapes the way he approaches creativity beyond the studio. When asked what's inspiring him, he doesn't begin with musicians or designers. Instead, he talks about moving from Houston to Los Angeles, watching films, the people he's meeting, and the ways different places quietly reshape who you are. "I've just been inspired a lot by living my life," he says, adding that making art means actually going out and experiencing something worth writing about.

That's not to say he isn't intentional. His visual identity is just as considered as his music. In fact, he says it came first. Fashion remains an essential part of the Love Spells universe, and he's already thinking about pushing both his sound and aesthetic further. But even those decisions seem to come from instinct rather than strategy. He's less interested in preserving a recognizable image than in following whatever feels truthful in the moment.

Maybe that's what makes Love Spells so compelling. The mystery that listeners hear isn't manufactured; it's created in the space between his experiences and our own. He offers the feeling, but never insists on the interpretation. In an era where artists are often expected to explain every lyric, every reference and every intention, Love Spells seems surprisingly comfortable leaving the final meaning with the listener. That restraint doesn't make him more mysterious, it makes him more human. More honest.