at least I'm not where I'm not wanted. It was alright, they paid me! It was fine. Things just came bit by bit. I moved to the countryside for the summer, I lived back where I'm from but actually that was fucking exhausting so I came right back to London again [ laughs ] got back on with it. And here I am, I've made a record. It was hard fought and hard won. I came back through the music and I suppose in a way it was more vital than ever that I write because it was the place where I could give myself some peace and quiet - time to myself away from my daughter. I love her to pieces but we all need some time." Were the songs you writing different to what you'd done before because there was no deadlines or record deal? "It wasn't so much that exactly, the difference was I kept coming back to things and made them really complete. With every record I've ever made there's always been this, like, Argh! People would say, Well if you got it perfect why would you bother making another record. I'd go, Good answer! It would sort of satiate me for about an hour. This time I really had the time to keep edging it and moving it, nothing too dramatic, but I was writing it until I was finished. When I went into the studio the songs were really, really complete." Did it matter