America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.