Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.

I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.

I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.

I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But I'm still here.

In this day and age of social media, where everything is so centred around how many Instagram and Twitter followers you have, what's keeping me afloat is the fact that my live performance is something that people can enjoy.