I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.

[My mother] was the one who encouraged me constantly and always reminded me that God gave me a talent and I have to use it. I should not keep it locked inside.

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

The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.

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

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.

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.