I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

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 decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

A pretty pivotal moment for me was having a songwriting class with Paul McCartney when I was at LIPA, and then being called in a few days later by the headmaster of the school to tell me that Paul McCartney likes what I'm doing.

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.