You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.