Joan Armatrading Quotes
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.
When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
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.
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.
This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
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.
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.
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening
In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.