That’s very nice of you to say. I wish you could see me right now – I look like I just came out of a dirty dishwasher. I think maybe my style icons are the different versions of myself: I live in different realms, so the version of me that lives in 1960, 2719 or 2805. I think about the magazines that exist in those times and take inspiration from that. I am drawn down lots of rabbit holes and into uncovering the universe.
Are you a fan of science fiction and, if so, what’s your favourite work of the genre; book or comic book or movie?sci-fi. My first EP, Metropolis, was inspired by Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s 1927 black and white silent film. When I saw the film – and Lang is the godfather of sci-fi – I saw the struggle between the haves and the have-nots. I thought about my own life growing up working-class in Kansas City and feeling like we’re in a rat race that we could never fight our way out of.
I love Fela and it’s so beautiful that I had an opportunity to collaborate with his son, Seun Kuti, on Float for my last album . It was wonderful to be able to tell him how much his father’s music has meant to me. I’m constantly listening to Water No Get Enemy and Zombie and Expensive Shit – so much so that Champagne Shit was inspired by it.You know, I DJ now. I DJ’d last night, actually, and we were up until one or two in the morning.