When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful. Now I use it for a bunch of different situations, whether I'm stressing before a show or something in the day really pisses me off.

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

Sometimes you can just tell there's something unique about it, but you can never really truly tell until you show it to a third party - you show it to you friends, or you show it to people you know that know about music like my label or those kinda people.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I feel like New Zealand's a bit of an unchartered territory for me in a way.