You'd think, of course, it's about the melody - that's a given. But really, I'm no good at singing a song unless it has a good lyric.

I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own mum, but nobody teaches you how to be a really great mum.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves.