"Growing up... I certainly didn’t have brown faces there in the media or anything like that as a young kid."
"The stuff that was getting me called a cold-hearted bitch and a cunt and having my address put on the…
"So many songs seem to present a black-and-white version of experience and I often don’t relate to them..."
An infectious, confident debut.
"There was nothing safe about it, nothing fake or formulaic, it was real life raw human emotion, radiant and bursting…
"The whole song came out very quickly because I think I had something to get off my chest..."
"I hadn't really found my voice until I heard Justin Vernon sing"
And they're touring next month!
Touring Australia this November with fellow 80s icons Scorpions
"That’s what I fell in love with. The honesty, the vulnerability, her sense of humour..."
"I've had more to do than I've ever had in my life – but you just take it step-by-step and…
"I didn't want 'Sleep' to just be a song, but an entire project."
"...You were my mother's love of Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Shirley Bassey metamorphosed on the TV, in real time"
"It's the cheeky smile you can’t help but let out, it’s the knowing that where there's pain, there's beauty."
"I was in my most dramatic era. And you were so supportive of that."
"This record is like a long slow memory..."
"As a crew we decoded these works as they inevitably became the soundtrack to our adolescence"
"It’s about layers and textures – closing your eyes and seeing how deep you can go"