of mine who said, You could have made it three years ago, you had enough songs then... but it wasn't the right time. Timing is a funny thing. It was definitely about feeling I was in the right place with my life. Though funnily I ended-up getting pregnant again [ just before recording ] and that gave me another year on it. Oh well! [ laughs ]." When you finished your last album, 2006's Comfort Of Strangers, was taking a break always the plan? "At the end of the last one I didn't know if I'd ever make another record. It was like, Oh well, that was that then! I loved my last record and I was pretty sad that it never saw more light of day, but then I go pregnant. I toured it for five-and-a-half months, then the doctor told me I should probably stop getting on an aeroplane, so I did. Then I was working with Bert Jansch. It was very challenging to work with him in a good way, but still I didn't feel, Way hey! I wasn't with my label or management, I had a child on my own... so I thought I was done. Then bit by bit, it just started to bubble up again, this desire to write. That's what led it, I was writing the songs anyway." And then you got dropped by EMI... "I didn't mind that, I knew it was coming anyway. It was kind of a liberation, you know: