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.
St. LuciaI'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.
St. LuciaI'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.
St. LuciaNormally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.
St. LuciaI 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.
St. LuciaOf 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.
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