As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork. I forgot to mention that my course of study at the Art Institute is BSC in Media Arts and Animation.

Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song.

I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."

Like, in retrospect, this whole Mini-Album is about itself, and the process of letting go of the fear of what people will think about the music or of me or whatever and just putting it out there. But none of that was intentional at all.

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