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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.

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St. Lucia
Age: 54
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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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.
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Everyone can of course take their own meaning, that's the beauty of music and lyrics, but to me it seems like everything is about being attached to the past and being afraid of moving forward, afraid of that big dive or step and losing what was.
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Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me.
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I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.
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I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, Nothing good comes easy. So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.
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What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.
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When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.
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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.
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It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.
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World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.
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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.
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Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations.
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My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.
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Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy people (although, I've had my moments of that as well). I think it was just years of maybe moving slightly away from it but always coming back to it as the thing that I'm best at.
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I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
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You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.
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We should not let negative influences get to us.
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