Chris Yates, Journalist

They are very interested and curious. I usually get much friendly feedback from the people. Many of them want to take pictures with me. I am sad that I don’t speak any English, because then I could communicate better with all these great people.”

“I’m not a traditional, nice, soft singer that you can put on your radio while you cook and talk to your friend. Either people love me or they cannot stand me!”

"I will make music until I can’t make music anymore. I don’t have any goals like ‘I wanna be famous’ or ‘I wanna make a platinum record and be number one on the charts’. None of that matters to me."

"Oh man, I loved Beastie Boys growing up... I was always trying to get my friends and be like, ‘We could be the girl Beastie Boys!’ and everyone was like, ‘Yeah!’ But then they never did it and I was the only one who really wanted it!"

"I’ve just been trying to work through and finish this album, which is exciting but quite terrifying all at the same time.”

“We just played a show in Kuala Lumpur with Citizens Of Icecream and a few other really great bands in an art space they set up in the abandoned levels above a shopping mall in Ampang.”

“I never really thought of myself as a vocalist... I always considered myself a composer. Then I started working with the guys and I became the vocalist."

"I find myself often staying up late producing music. I don’t know why but it seems once I get past midnight or one o’clock... Then all the hours seem to be flying by. When you hear the birds chirping, that’s always the unsettling part.”

This Was Tomorrow is a landmark Australian hip hop record.

"We recorded exactly the same songs, in our view, badly!... I think we mistook a little bit of looseness and relaxedness, and a ‘when it’s finished it’s finished’ attitude, with just too much looseness in the studio."

"We are big fans of Wilco... I personally am a really big fan of some of their early stages, particularly records like Being There and Summerteeth. The Summerteeth record is one of their more produced records I would say even, and I really like that record – there’s a lot of great songs on that album."