"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."

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"My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs."

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"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."

Day

"It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it."

Love

"All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."

Sound

"One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion."

Dance

"That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage."

Work

"So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time."

Time

"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."

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"So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours."

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"Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it."

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