I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

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

Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.