'Ready' is dedicated to young people who are not yet jaded and worn down by the realities of this world.
— Montaigne
I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.
Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged us to play, he still found time to take me to ballet and tennis lessons.
I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.
I read a lot, I write a lot, and I have conversations with people I think are intelligent and wise.
I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.
I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.
I realised the animal agriculture industry is actually awful and tragic and I can't bear to be a part of that. The environmental impact of the agriculture industry, the health impact on us, there's all the reasons.
All festival food is expensive.
I take after my dad in the calm and measured way he approaches situations.
My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke to Britney Spears' 'Lucky' in our living room, and tape recordings of my parents trying to elicit songs out of our throats at a similar or younger age.
My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating my perspective.
I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.
Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.
I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.
I went to all of Dad's football games. As I got older, I got involved. He taught me everything I know about playing it.
My dad played in the National Soccer League in Australia and also played football in Malaysia.
I spent my first five years in Canberra then moved to Sydney, where I moved around the Hills District until the age of 18.
All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're alone in it, which is isolating and intense and insurmountable. But we can get over it.
With San Cisco, young kids are more willing to yell at whoever is standing on stage. The difference between the yelling and the quietness is if the older crowd are quiet, they're showing you respect. When you do get a cheer back from them, it's special because they are actually listening.
