Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore Im always pleasantly surprised.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.