Do you even get to finish your whakapapa, your pepeha when you get it out?

Do you know where I finish it off? In my kids.

So our kids have all different names that is a different part of their whakapapa.

So that they all, they don't have the same whakapapa lines in their names.

Wow.

So son's got Tainui and Te Awatupua, Whananui.

And then my middle daughter, she's Ngati Pukena.

Kāinga, the brand new single from Stan Walker out and it's a love letter to your tamariki.

You've got a new song, too, man.

New song? It's a five-minute long-ass song.

It's basically a book.

I'm making music that I want to leave for my kids and leave for my kids to take with them and for whoever.

I've already come to that decision.

I might never ever make a charts, but I don't really care.

I just want to make what I feel and what I'm going to be proud of and what my kids are going to be proud of.

What do I stand? Think about

The Circle of Life.

Are you still singing that? Still sing it.

It's actually my favourite song.

I grew up listening to that song my whole life, and it was actually the song that I decided to sing for my audition for Australian Idol.

Even though they didn't show it on TV, they wanted me to sing something else, and I had to come up with something on the spot, but that song and that movie is like, that movie is forgiveness.

Gangster.

It is gangster.

What did you mean by that? I just

My

best mate Ross, I love you.

Nah, well, Junior can get fired.

He's a blues player.

Oh, true, true, true.

But nah, yeah, I'll have the whole band.

I want to have heaps of singers on there too.

taught

Yeah.

That's why...

That's why I feel like sometimes maybe it's the social media algorithms or the way that women talk about men, I'm like, it, I think we're so easy.

Like, you've just gotta understand men, right? Like, what was the, what was the fly on the urinal? It was like, "Give s- men something to aim for."

The metaphor of it all

... it's not about the fly.

Oh, you bet you wanna hit a fly.

No, we just want something to aim for.

It's crazy to even see you here in New Zealand because we always see you in every other part of the world.

Bro, especially in the winter.

I need to be gone.

I need to be getting gigs this summer.

Love's a party trip, eh? Oh, bro.

Straight up.

But no, it's like, yeah, I think because like the last two years I've been touring overseas on my own, but I haven't done anything back here, back home.

What does performing at home mean to you?