The Importance of Resilience

Between 16 and 18, I was trying to get a publishing deal or a record deal. And so what my day would often consist of is it's Monday morning, I get on the train. It's a four hour journey at this point. You get to London, you go and sit at EMI records in reception waiting to see somebody. Some days you'd sit there for six hours and no one would come. So that went on for like one or two years and I thought, right, and what I need is I need a partner. I need someone who's between me and the label and manager while I'm writing and singing. That's when I did all the applications to the