My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.
I'm quite an eclectic musician.
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.
Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.
My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.
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