He doesn't want the drugs to change him.

The artist who redefined the contemporary musical path in his own way, Sam Ryder, in a candid interview on the podcast "Mad, Sad and Bad", spoke about his "optimistic" view of the world, but also about the "madness" of the daily routines that shape his life.

He spoke openly about how he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and how important it is for him to control his environment.

"If someone comes to my house, everything has to be perfect. Then I just stand there and wait... I don't even want the couch to get wrinkled," he said, adding that he doesn't want to change that part of himself.

"I don't want to go for evaluations because of that, because I like the way I am. I don't want that to go away. I don't want someone to 'change' me medically," the musician stressed.

Ryder spoke about difficult moments in his life, including two near-death experiences. One was while surfing, when, as he says, "everything suddenly went black," and the other was a car accident in which he and his partner thought they wouldn't survive.

"We were staring death in the face... and then we got hit by a truck."

Speaking about the future, he said that the discipline he learned from his father, as well as his late start to his career, still keeps him going.

"I used to think that if you didn't make it by 25, it was over," he admitted.

Today, at the age of 31, he says the opposite:

"You don't have to be stuck in one path in life."