we hear on the Buffalo EP representative of this? I definitely grew up listening to an eclectic range of music as a kid.  When I got my first guitar, I guess like most kids growing up in the 90?s I was a big Nirvana fan and I learnt to play guitar by watching Kurt play on MTV Unplugged and try to imitate his style of playing guitar.  Then there are the classics such as Hendrix and I'm a big fan of The Doors, obviously The Beatles, Nick Drake, and a whole bunch of different folky kind of bands.  Then in the other arena, when I was really young I listened to Thriller non-stop, I think I wore the vinyl out (laughs).  I came from a very eclectic musical background and that's how I like to write as well, I don't like to stick to one kind of genre.  I'm all over the place because different moods and feelings inspire different sounds. I guess you must really be relishing your creative freedom now, it must be quite a liberating feeling? The whole Idol experience whilst I was grateful for it, in some ways I just felt like I was being a shadow of my former self.  I just didn't feel like I was in the music industry to create music anymore, it felt like this celebrity head kind of feeling.  I just didn't feel comfortable with that as it's not who I am and what I want to create.  So Buffalo