With the second record (2012's Anxiety), I was quite jaded, and exhausted, and tired. With this third record, I feel that I've come full circle. I had gotten to the absolute pinnacle of how bad someone could feel.

I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.

Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

I'm just a small-town New Zealand girl. But, I do think it was incredibly necessary for me. Wild Things wouldn't exist if I hadn't have made some dramatic changes and that all happened in LA.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.