I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

The season is focused on renovating a house in Palm Beach Florida with each episode dedicated to a different room in the house. When Van Winkle was four his mother divorced. [citation needed] His relationship and different professions helped anchor Van Winkle who thought about leaving music behind just as he did hard drugs.

After surviving a suicide attempt Van Winkle was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle. Although Van Winkle was successful he later regretted his business arrangements with SBK which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and publiVanilla Iced fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. Van Winkle is currently signed to Psychopathic Records.