I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

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 feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

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.