I always find it really hard to describe my music. I'm kind of all for the belief that ‘genre is dead, you can't put me in a box. I don't know, I think ‘genres’ exist just to sell music, and I'm not entirely sure where I would put myself in any 'box', in any part of my life, and definitely not in my music.
But I guess it's a result of electronic influences, with me as singer/songwriter, that kind of vibe. I started off as more of a singer/songwriter with an acoustic guitar and kind of progressed to more avante garde, experimental stuff. I live with my flatmate, Bobby, and he produces all of my music. We make all of it together in our flat, and we're releasing some new material this year.
I played violin as a child so I always had that influence of being around music and I just always had such a connection to singing and telling stories and then I just happened to be song writing. I just kept doing that and found real happiness in expressing myself in that way. It’s almost as if I never consciously decided that this is the career path that I'm going to go down, it's just been a gradual progression to, this is what I have to do.
I love the music. You go through phases where it's tough and you're overthinking. I think the biggest task is getting it all out your own head and stop judging your work before it's even been done. I think that I can never decide whether I'm having a breakdown or a breakthrough when I make music, but we're going to find out soon, when the new material is released, but I think it's a breakthrough.
I'm really excited about this year, it's the Year of the Rat and I was born in the Year of the Rat, so it's obviously my year. Yeah, I think it's going to be a really exciting year. I've got some cool things lined up so we'll see how that all pans out.
I've never really lived doing anything else so I don't really understand what people do if they don't do this. It's everything to me, it's closer to me than any other person has ever been, it's how I express myself and how I find out about myself. I don't know how people cope if they don’t have something in their life that means what making music does to me. I think everybody needs an outlet and I'm just really lucky that I've got this.
