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

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.

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 decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.

I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.