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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.