If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

As long as I can sustain myself and as long as people like what I am doing and are happy to support me to continue, that is success in my eyes.

Acting is fun. I enjoy it, but there is just not many opportunities to do it on a serious level. It is kind of either bad community musicals, or if you are lucky enough to be cast in something serious. I feel like you really have to be going after it, and for me I am a little bit distracted.

I was born in London. I moved to New Zealand when I was really young; I can't remember London. My parents went and did what was supposed to be a one-year O.E. (overseas experience) that turned into a 9 year O.E. and they had two kids.

I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place, where they say things like, "I don't write for other people, I write for myself," and I feel like that misses the mark so much because music, especially pop music, is so much more than yourself.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.