I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.

I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive me to school every day and over the weekend I would go to the mall and then occasionally on Safari. Pretty normal stuff, apart from the Safari.

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

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

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.