I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to finish in the course of a day, hell probably not even a week. My mind is always going to change and my emotional state will also change on a daily basis.

I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.