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 had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.

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.

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.

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.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

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.