While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later...I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

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.

Generally I'll keep 95% of what I sing on that first scratch vocal take. Sometimes that idea will ferment for a long time, and sometimes I"ll be close enough to my studio and have enough time (kind of rare these days) to go and work on the idea. Not every song is super easy though.

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

When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in the mountains in South Africa, and that's when everything started to change for me and I realised that music is my thing.

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.