Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

I'm too much of a control freak.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.