I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.
BirdyIt's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a "real teacher" for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano. That was the main thing.
BirdyI think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.
Birdy