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 like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to that point, I was not really that appreciative of what was going on, or thinking about documenting life in a plainspoken manner. I was talking about my life and writing songs, but then I would go back and listen and they were about dreams, and legends, and metaphors and that was just not my life!

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.