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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.