Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.

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 feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.

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

It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.