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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.