The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

Everything I make starts very personally.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.