"Absolutely, as a songwriter it presented a lot of interesting challenges and as a musician I got to exercise my chops on guitar, piano, string arrangements, bass, programming drums, producing and putting it out on my own label. It was like an all round arts project that came together for me, like a composer’s way of making a rock record."

What's your first musical memory?

My earliest recollection is when I was years old, and I remember that music was already something that was part of me. A few years later, when I was 6 or 7, instead of making my mom take me to the toy store, I'd make her take me to the record store. it was just something that was in my blood.