Meeting my wife changed everything; it really, in the long run, made me a much better artist, a much better songwriter, a much better maker of albums.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
My first album done what it had to do. It introduced me.
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.
I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
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