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

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" I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. "

" Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration. "

" A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now. "

" Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it. "

" I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm intending to go. My cards are always on the table. "

" My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me to develop as a songwriter. "

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

" Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. "

" Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. "

" There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world. "

" You don't leave people who can't defend themselves. "

" I don't see music as working. "

" I get tired of wearing the same thing all the time too. "

" I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty. "

" When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. "

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

" 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. "

" There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach. "

" Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed. "

" When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. "

" There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often. "

" I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself. "

" I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was. "

" I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. "

" My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play. "

" It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine. "

" I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. "

" My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. "

" I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. "

" After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. "