I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.