Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling fountains splashing. Weirs waterfalls tumbling gushing.

Since I met Starsmith my producer I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

Men are wary of me because they know by listening to my music that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me because it's a good earned feeling now.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music because it lacks real depth.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them very proud of them and we are in close contact as big-time friends but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

That was a time when I did love music I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential so immediately.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence and silence is full of music.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.