Tash Sultana

I've played music that's terrible in the past, and not everyone likes you, which is fine.

You can impact on people with music, and I love that because music impacts on me.

I've got an awesome career happening, and I absolutely am so stoked with how it's all worked out.

If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it - I'm serious: it's an actual job.

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit the street and started busking and making my own way.

My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can.

I've got a lot of pedals and a lot of knobs that need to be switching around during my performance, so I've taught my toes how to do that.

I'm just all for equal rights and stuff like that, but I'm not like one of those 'Yay empowerment' type of people.

Music is multi-dimensional: it's all in the feeling. Sometimes I feel like looping; sometimes I don't. Sometimes I want to strip it back, play instruments I've never played before.

I have learnt my boundaries and what I need to do to preserve my energy and not give out too much of myself every night.

Free Mind' was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn't figure out how to put together - until one day, when I was in the studio, it kind of just fell into place.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can't speak the same language, is crazy.