I never expected I was going to travel the world playing gigs with my band and best friends. I have surpassed any dreams I had.
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.
I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.
I've been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.
I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?
I'd gig three to five times a week while I was doing my A-levels. I'd always come in with a runny nose 'cause I was always ill and run-down. But I just pushed through.
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.
But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.
I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.
Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.
I love playing live, and doing big TV shows are exciting.
I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.
A big part of the reason that I make music is that I want to be a part of people's memories - you're there; you're present in someone's life.
My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space.
As a songwriter, I've got a lot of facets, so to speak. When you come to a live show, you get a better sense of that, because you'll see me performing a piano ballad and some acoustic songs and some not acoustic songs, all in the same set.
I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want to hear it.
I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.
People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.
I was always the sniffly kid with bags under my eyes.
Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.
