I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with.

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?

In my experience, the psychological aspect of femininity tends to be more receptive and apathetic and delicate. I think that because the feminine is a bit quieter, we live in a masculine-dominated society. It is the front-forward force that runs the world. And that's not the fault of men by any means, that's just the way the world works.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.