It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. At this point, I'm incredibly grateful for the relationship that it's given me with the men that I play music with. It's a great journey, and I'm really grateful for that. And also, being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic.

I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.