The Gay UK December 2015 | Page 103

COVER JH: He gave you a lady boner? A: He did – he gave me – what’s a lady boner – a loner! (Laughs) He gave me a loner… Oh my gawd. JH: What’s the best way to get back on a cheating lover? 1) Drink lots of red wine, put I’m Outta Love on and eat lots of ice cream? 2) Take scissor to all of his clothes? 3) Take yourself off to a retreat, dress in hemp, put on lots of beads and meditate for a month? A: I think logically I would more do the meditation. If I wanted to be honest in my real life, truthfully, I never mention anyone’s names but I write songs to get through my relationships. That’s probably why people enjoyed my music, because there was a such a literal level of honesty cutting through each lyric. So I would say, number 1, but spiritually I’m a number 3. JH: One Day In Your Life should have been a number 1 worldwide – it was THE TUNE… Why wasn’t it? Discuss! A: My thoughts would be is that I was hard to out do I’m Outta Love, and it was really close. It was a strong reminder and I think if anyone else did it, it might not have even gone that far, but because I did it, it was reminiscent. If people had a choice, they’d have chosen I’m Outta Love, over One Day In Your Life. JH: I just don’t think they heard it enough! A: I really like that song, it’s definitely a song that I don’t do at the beginning of my set for sure… JH: You don’t want to give it away too soon! A: Exactly… JH: Which was the album that was the most fun and releasing for you to write? A: Definitely Resurrection. I think the one I learned the most from was my covers album, It’s A Man’s World. I did only men’s classic rock songs like ACDC and Led Zeppelin. I did that for me, not necessarily for the factor that it would sell. I just needed to find myself again, it was the most engaged I’ve been in discovering music. When you’re trying to sing those songs my god, you pay homage, you’re like “I’m not worthy”. I was just able to come back to a place where, once I wrote my next project, which was Resurrection, I un