I really don't know! Fans might just be keen to wear a bit of Benee... Others might like the look of the clothes and hopefully, be introduced to the music.

I just gave them a whole lot of colour, pattern, style and texture ideas and we went from there… Maybe a bit of subconscious nostalgia from the time I was born! (Laughs).

Interesting, I’ve definitely heard of the movie and maybe watched it quite a while ago but it wasn’t an inspiration.

That's a big question! We don't actually have Bershka in New Zealand, so I doubt that it will have much of an effect on the country's culture. I just hope people really enjoy wearing the clothes.

I started Olive with a view of using my current platform to help other artists gain a bit more exposure. There are so many talented people out there and it'd be great if we could have a small part in helping them to succeed.
There is a lack of female executives in every industry: full stop. Attitudes towards women in business need to change across the board. The fact that our own Prime Minister was grilled in the past about her potential decision to have children in the future says it all. Who would have dared asked a man about whether this would affect his ability to govern in any way?

Keep writing, singing and performing, don’t give up! Put stuff on Soundcloud or Bandcamp, get it out there so people can hear what you're up to. Find a mentor, ask other musicians for advice. Be true to your artistic vision. Learn to say no strongly to whatever ideas you don't agree with… It's your career, not anyone else’s. To start your own record label you need like-minded individuals and some financial backing. Concentrate on your own career first.

I wasn't really aware of Tiktok until Glitter started blowing up and then with Supalonely it was just next level. I am very happy that this platform exposed my music to a whole lot of people who may not otherwise have heard it. I haven't ever written anything with it in mind and I don't plan to, most of my interaction will be looking at other people's TikToks I guess!

From the feedback, I get I know that fans appreciate feeling that we all share the human condition, we all suffer anxiety and sadness, we all want to feel joy and be accepted for who and what we are.
Social media can make it very difficult to keep your private life private... Fans seem to be able to figure out the aliases I come up with and I'm amazed at how they find pictures of me from the past. I know that most of this is just done with love, so it's hard to feel offended but we all need to have some things in our lives which are not to be shared with anyone but our closest friends and relatives.

I'm very lucky that I was diagnosed early and had lots of individual help to learn to cope in school. I had a great phonographic tutor who taught me how to decipher words, so I was able to function really well in a regular school environment after a couple of years. Not all children with learning challenges get this help and that worries me because so much potential is being lost by children unable to learn in the current school systems.
They say that dyslexics often think in pictures and have a wide world view, maybe this is a gift as well as a challenge?? Now that so much of our learning can be through video and audio (podcasts etc.), maybe this generation will do better than, say, my parents' generation when this wasn't an option.

I was very lucky to be supported and guided during this time by my then manager, and my producer Josh.  We worked together for a long time to find my sound and I was allowed to experiment and find my voice without outside pressure.

It was such an honour to be nominated! It was incredible to see my name besides all those other amazing artists. I still pinch myself sometimes thinking about all the crazy experiences I have had in the last couple of years.

I think it's so important to acknowledge the mental health challenges that so many of us face on a daily basis. There is so much work to be done in making the world a safer and more accepting place and letting people know it's ok to ask for help. It's always been a bit of a taboo subject but even the recent withdrawal of a star like Simone Biles from the Olympics means others see that this is a problem for people in all walks of life. You are not alone!

I have always said that I am not to be bound by any constraint of genre or style. I want to be free to make the music I want to make regardless. We now live in a world where we can communicate directly with our fans and other artists… It's an exciting time to be a musician I think!