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.

In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

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

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

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