The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.