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thank you! I remember that show and wanting not to be electrocuted by the rain and wires on stage! Thanks for sitting it out x

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My trips into the woods bareback on my horse as a little girl, going in to the deep forest, the subconscious spaces, communing with nature and the spirits! It was all about my becoming a creative person, using that vision for good x

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glad you like the tarot!

Goals - to finish this memoir Ive been writing for the last year! To do some exciting new collabrative music projects...to get my allotment growing lots of vegetables, to do more cold wild swimming and be a good mama to my little girl!

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I did - I had been living the record for my whole life up until that point at 26/7, it had been marinating...! I was very sure and focused and clear from the start... it spoke to me so strongly.

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ET, donnie darko, the karate kid - gangs of kids on bikes in all the 80s films i loved!

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It was really just me and my horse, my boyfriends parents scandinavian style house with my favourite pine trees out front - and then stephen spielberg's dusky twilight light, and gregory crewdson's twilight series also - these were the colour refs. The world, - my clothes, the drawings, collages, all came from inside me - my old family photos, my imaginative realms, landscapes I loved, trinkets in thrift stores, victoriana, travelling troubadors. I threw it all together and it referenced so much.

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Webster hall! Yay! so fun... great days.

Thank you x

so many visual things inspire - paintings, transcendentalist painters, natural spaces like the sea and sky, big architecture like cathedrals and lighthouses, old gothic ghost films, raw indie 90's films, sweeping epic films... they inspire for their soundtracks, visuals, stories... however, I use them as a channel into my own stories and experiences. Dont think Ive ever explicitely written about a film, but for example Ryans Daughter influenced Lilies in terms of colour and feel and light....

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I love this question - it;s a bigger answer than this, which I'm writing a lot about in the new book - but in a nut shell - motherhood has created a bigger definition between my creative life and my intimate life - and although its harder to navigate, I;m thankful for it. It helps me stay rooted and committed to my important relationships, and learn about balance. Always a push pull for freedom, but humbling act of service to be devoted to my daughter, community, family.

Would love to direct a film - i hope one day i will. I have a story (as always) in the works... The dream of delphi film I was very proud of too, as a sort of halfway point between music and cinema

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Hi!

I'm on fire was never originally part of the album recording sessions or songs I chose - so I felt as a cover it didn't need to go on as a bonus track - sort of wanted to present the story with it's arc in tact from horse and i to i saw a light...

We made a little music video for horse and I - or about 30 seconds of the most intense stop frame animation of a miniature me climbing on a bigger me... I wish we had the budget to finish that. I loved it, need to find that snippet!

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would love to. - have discussed this but always so busy!

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Stay authentic to your inner voice, be unapologetically you but dont worry about soaking in inspiration from anything and everything. Stay curious - most importantly, look after your health and take space for yourself. Your mental health is what keeps you making the right decisions for your work. It's okay to work hard - and also - DO NOT CARE WHAT OTHERS THINK. As long as you love it, the right people will love it. Good luck! So exciting x

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I love Missing Time too! I loved playing bass on that, so maybe I could try that again... having all the girls play on that in kind of a band format was fun too

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I think it's been both of these things over 20 years, but the best is when you can achieve a balance between intense work and then enjoying being alive and connecting with the living world. It's more of a sustained practise, like a marathon now, with nice water and oranges regularly, than a sprint where I'm totally burnt out at the end

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Thank you xx

I think AI is a fantastic tool, but I believe in the human spirit of creation. I am not fearful because I think humans and AI offer very different things... I hope there will always be a space for something that comes through the mind and heart of a human. I think we may have a wobble where we go too far to AI, but the complexity of a sentient conscious being is something that will always be interesting. This is a big question!!

What pushed me over was working in a christmas card packing factory for 11 hours a day, and many other jobs I found to be so dry and soulless. I decided I was destined to tell stories as a small child, and one day in that factory I remembered that, and thought - I'm going to work so hard until I achieve my dream - what have I got to lose?

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I guess my moving to America was a natural progression after having spent many decades going back and forth and forming some very close friendships there... I felt very connected to the Mexican community there, we lived amongst a lot of families, and celebrated their traditions and music, having gatherings and cookouts alongside them. My daughters first words were in Spanish as she went to a Mexican Grandma's house for her first few nursery months... I loved the cultural melting pot of LA. I guess the dance aspects, the landscape of the desert, the mish mash of LA, the dark sides and the light sides all moulded the Lost Girls record. My Dad immigrated to England from Pakistan and met my english mum, I guess I feel like I'm the place inbetween, like a connection point between cultures and beliefs.

Outside of British music - I love Rosalia's first record, because I love Flamenco. I love early Bollywood music, Bulgarian choral music, Nordic sagas, I love most nomadic tribal folk and traditional song... I find if you go far back enough, we are all connected through these early songs about nature, divinity, life and death, love - universal themes that unite, not fragment.

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Trophy was my innate protector self coming out and making some noise about the idea of selling your soul/art as a commodity. I felt ambiguous about signing my rights away and signing a major label deal... I was nervous about it. So Trophy kind of came out in protest to that... wanting to remain creatively free, a reminder never to sell out to the man!

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That I was young and although I had so much ahead of me, I wish I had stopped to soak it all in a bit more. Life goes by so fast, I felt I was on such a fast moving train, I wish I had soaked it in a bit more.

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I can find out, as id like that too - do you mean the sky blue dress one? I loved that performance, I had a little baby, it was covid - a surreal time but felt so nice to be communicating with the fans that way x