Interviews: Getting to Know

The examined life: that's the one worth living, but it's tough when life doesn't imply that you're going to be happy or comfortable all the time.

I think I've learnt that I'm okay with taking things slowly and just saying as much as I need to say.

... I’ve recently been feeling like people put these ideas on you of what they think that you are, or what they think that you’re like, because of the things you make.

I know how much it takes out of you to make it in the music world, and I know how much it takes in the art world, and I just don’t know if I have it in me to do both.

Music, really, is the base of it all; I think about it pretty much whenever I'm awake.

... it felt as though, for singing, you either had it or you didn't have it, and as far as I was concerned, I didn't have it.

I guess I do actually daydream about the end of the world a lot: what it would be like; what would happen.

It can’t always just be this triumphant, 'We have the answers, and everything will be fine!' Because nobody will believe you. I won’t believe myself.

I think it’s really important to be good friends as well - not just colleagues.

I’m probably most fascinated by human relationships, simply because I find them confusing. I’m quite a shy person and quite introverted, so I often find it difficult to understand people.

For me, making art of any kind is basically the conservation of life. It's a spiritual kind of process; it's being in touch with what it is to be human.

I always put things out thinking that they’re totally normal, and then people come back saying that it’s totally weird.

... you could say it’s a bit of a dumping ground for all my more sad emotions. I think it’s a gentler version of me than I generally put into music.

The feedback we would give each other was very honest - brutally honest at times, too.