Attawalpa

And then she would be there all day, you know, painting.

And I think watching her was my first sort of iteration of this is what it is to do the thing.

It's sitting and just getting lost and creating your own world to get lost in.

I didn't really understand that till much later on, you know, till like my 30s really.

I think when I started writing music, I smoked weed a lot and that would get me into that space where I could just sit somewhere for five to six hours doing one thing.

But my mum would just do it and her paintings were all around the house since I can remember, you know, mostly nudes.

I loved when she painted me as well because she really, the paintings never looked like me, but it felt like me.

She's very good at capturing someone's essence.

And in the same time, her own essence, which I guess is, you know, the language of the artist.

She would have a Polaroid and she would just take it because I couldn't sit still.

Couldn't sit still, no.

Were you good at sitting still as a kid?

Probably not, no.

Do you still dance?

yeah first of all she's incredible yeah and i think dancing is yeah the purest form of expression i sadly can't do it i'm on stage i move i was gonna say you were also in you had a cameo in too much as a dj and you were like upper body moving

I was maybe a little bit of, you know, 20% of underbody moving as well, but you couldn't see it because it was cut.

But yeah, I always feel extremely self-conscious, you know, even when I was young and my friends would love to dance, I would watch them and be like, oh,

That's so cool.

I mean, I remember growing up a little bit in Peru, and one of my first memories of being around artists out there was like my mother, this amazing painter you should check out called Alberto Grieve, G-R-I-E-V-E, and his paintings.

We have a few in Peru that are kind of abstract, sort of Pollock-y, but...