I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.