Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

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.

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...