I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album, and the artwork. I always had these ambitious musical projects in mind.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

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

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

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.