The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into music. And it feels great, having one foot in the present, writing and covering interesting songs, and having one foot in the past.