You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.