I grew up a huge Celine fan, I think I always saw such a pure love for vocals and music in her. I first learned to sing from the divas like her, then had to find my own place vocally. I’m also deeply inspired by Joni Mitchell, her way of heartfelt story telling and knack for creating intimacy in music. I felt like I knew her heart so well through her music. She was one of the first women I saw with a guitar in hand and made me believe that was for me too.

I’m really proud to be from Canada, we’re a culture deeply connected to music in different ways from coast to coast. We have a support structure for arts and music more than most places in the world which helps foster so much creativity within our country. When I’m touring in other countries I’m always really proud to clarify that I’m Canadian, theres a lot of love for Canada around the world.

So many of my songs are written from a deep, heartfelt place, I find that state the most creatively inspiring. I love spilling my feelings with visuals. One important song to me from A6 is Alive Again. I have struggled with depression through my life and I remember laying on the bathroom floor at 4am in such a bad place and from that POV felt like I could really truly see up. You can get a lot of perspective from the bottom, at the fragility of life, at your hopes and dreams, and what you might really want, and that what's the worst that can happen if you just go for it all.

I have playlists for every mood or feeling, I’m something of a playlist guru. I’m always the one sharing them with friends for their road trips or parties or hangs. Currently, my most played playlist is one I’ve called Body Time for a feely, nostalgic vibe. It has Thrill by Future Islands which is probably one of my favourite songs, everything from Beach House to Rufus du Sol to Molchat Doma.

It never gets old! I am full of pride, especially these days since the new music was fully produced by me and I own the masters as well (for the first time in my career). It’s quite a feat for someone who has been dreaming about this being the outcome for twenty years.

Make and play what you love. It’s as simple as that. That way whether you become “successful” or not, you can always be proud of what you’ve created. I’ve had high up men at record labels tell me that it’s not about that, that it’s “dangerous territory” to make music you think is cool or that you’d be proud to show your friends because that’s the opposite of what makes money. I almost believed that mattered for a while and I look back and shudder.

I made an entire liquid drum and bass/melodic warehouse album with i_o before he passed away, called Warehouse Summer. It was very emotional and meaningful to put together over the course of the pandemic. It didn’t come out til years later and to this day I can’t listen to it, but I stand by that it’s some of my best work I’ve ever done, lyrically and melodically. It remains a hidden gem because so little was put into market this little precious masterpiece, for obvious reasons. If you know about it you know about it.

I love challenging myself to try new facets of my creativity and for me someday I’d love to make a horror movie. I was able to dabble a little by making a screen life horror inspired video for my song Okay Okay, and a found footage style clip for Alive Again. I’d love to write and direct a proper campy horror someday. Horror is my favourite genre and there’s so much flexibility within it to be creative and spooky.