I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

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

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension.

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.

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

Most of the writing that I do is a complete train of thought process. I'll just be walking down the street or sitting on the toilet or whatever and something will pop into my head and I'll record it on my phone and then over the next little while it'll develop a little more in my head.

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