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People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

My father started me singing in church.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.