We should not let negative influences get to us.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I think that layers in music, whether it's layers juxtaposing emotions and feelings or layers of texture, make for a more interesting product.

An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.