I stick to skinny jeans, a great pair of boots, Saint Laurent because it’s very Rock & Roll-esque. I love Brandon Flowers, Kurt Cobain, Marlon Brando, James Dean - anyone who’s classic. Onto your style. Do you have any influences or a particular aesthetic you go for? And I love anything that has a big choir. I sit at a piano and those chords are the first ones that resonate with me. For Remind Me in particular, I just love gospel chords. I love Simply Red, my mum listened to a lot of him. I listened to a lot of soul music from Sam Cooke, to Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, a lot of Motown and Queen. Growing up, who were your musical influences? Your newest single, Remind Me, has a real gospel influence. I’d like to think I’ll be fulfilled one day, but at the moment there’s so much you can achieve. You constantly feel like you want more - unfulfilled in a way. There’s something about the music industry. I couldn’t have dreamed about winning an ARIA, and now I’ve got that, I want a Grammy. Those points in your career when you’re like wow, that happened. It’s important that you appreciate those milestones. Last year saw you win your first ARIA for Song of the Year – what are your thoughts on your career’s progression in a notoriously difficult industry? He’s very hands on and an amazing person to team up with. He’s very charming and hard to say no to. He said he heard a quality in my voice and wanted to sign me. I heard he was starting a label, he heard a couple of songs, called and said to come to New York. You were discovered by music mogul Lyor Cohen, mentor to Jay-Z and responsible for signing Kanye West. It’s crazy that we both ended up in the same industry. I guess she grew up with me always in studios and trying to make it in the music industry so doors have opened earlier on for her. As soon as she could talk, she started singing. That was the only way to stop her from crying. There’s a bit of an age difference between us so she was a baby and I remember singing to her. Our grandparents were singers so there’s something genetic there. Is music something that runs in your family? Your sister Grace is also a singer her single, You Don’t Own Me, reached top five in both Australia and the UK. I was just picturing the film clip of me running across the top of the globe or something. It was pretty terrible but was about falling in love with a girl on every different continent. When did you start writing songs? Can you remember your very first? When the started playing more rock music, I found the Arctic Monkeys and delved into the British rock scene. I fell in love with British artists like Craig David and Lemar, which I don’t think I would’ve in Australia. I remember taking the first single back to Australia and playing it when I was eight. When the Spice Girls came out here they were still non-existent in Australia. I was back and forth most of my childhood. How do you think Australia has shaped your sound? You were born here and moved to Australia.
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