I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
I haven't got time for the pain.
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.
I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.