My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.