Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

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.

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

A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.