My mum was a single mum on the dole.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

might have helped Dole slightly.