Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

I think I have a really diverse audience. I've had people from all sorts of sexual persuasions.

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

Have I been blind, have I been lost, inside myself and my own mind?

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.