Q. How are you finding being a solo artist? Do you prefer it to being part of a band?

A. To some extent, yes, I do prefer it because being on my own allows me to create deeper, more meaningful music... not any rubbish about made up scenarios. I do miss the social part of being in a band but I feel like making music that is personal to me is very important. I have had problems with drugs not too long ago so I want to be able to reach out to other young people who are going through similar things to what I went through.

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Q. What influenced you to start taking drugs?

A. Well... I was going through a rather stressful time with my family and the pressure of my career wasn't making anything easier. I know now that I should have gone about it a different way, but the drugs really helped me to cope with the stress. Thats the reason I'm no longer a part of Amplify, our manager decided that I needed time to recover and I was living the band a bad reputation so he thought it was best that I left.

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Q. How did that feel to be kicked out of your band?

A. In all honestly I was completely gutted at the time because I didn't really get any say on the matter. For a while after I just felt as if I had completely screwed up my life, I was watching the others becoming even more successful because of their European tour, whilst I was left in my room smoking weed to pass the time. But then I realised that I didn't want my life to be completely destroyed just by this phase I was going through and thats why I'm where I am today.

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Q. What other artists do you look up to or take inspiration from?

A. My favourite artists are probably Arctic Monkeys, The 1975 and Wolf Alice because they're so original and don't just do what people want them to do. I love how you get a sense of the artists personalities through their deeper songs and they're more spontaneous ones. My favourite Arctic Monkeys lyric has got to be "What came first the chicken or the dickhead?" because its humorous and ironic but hints at real life situations at the same time. I love the creativity of Wolf Alice's music videos as the costumes are sick and they all seem to tell a story. I hope to create music videos as good as theres hopefully in the near future because of my new album.

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Q. Tell us about your album, what are your songs based on?

A. Some of the songs on the album do expectedly relate to my drug problem as it was a very dark time in my life but I want it to encourage others that you can get through it as I have become a better person from it. But instead of making them into miserable  depressing ballads Ive made them more upbeat so I don't bore everyone with my problems.

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Q. We've heard a lot of good things about your album so far, overall, are you proud of this achievement?

A. Yes of course, I am very proud of  completing this album - in the least narcissistic way possible. It has taken just under 2 years to compete, which is quite a fair amount of time, and although it was sometimes a long, tiring process I had such a sick time making it because of all the people who helped me. It was all so worth it.

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Pull quote: "But at the end of the day life goes on doesn't it?"