A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.

Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything is about being attached to the past and being afraid of moving forward, afraid of that big dive or step and losing what was.

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.

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.

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.