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My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

I'm a songwriter first.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.