Nerina Pallot Quotes

Gosh I started out in 2003 so I will have to cast my mind back. The first session lasted about six weeks; I then came back home and faffed around with some of it and didn’t like some of it so I went back. The bulk of it was done in America either with me there or me being sent the files and stuff. I go back quite often because my boyfriend lives in Los Angeles and we’ve been in a long distance relationship for about 2 years.

Every since I was little I have been musical, my family aren’t professional musicians or anything but they are very musical, so they always encouraged me. I then went to a school that really concentrated on music that was followed by Music College, I then just fell into jobs doing backing vocals, doing stuff on dance records, I worked in a record company for a little while, then I got signed to Polydor/Universal about 4 years ago and put out my first record.

Life really, when I write songs I’m not very conscious of what I’m writing about. Thoughts just pop out and then I can visualise a scene, I also come up with dummy lyrics that have a vibe or sentiment of what I want to write about. But I don’t ever start and say I’m going to write a song about this.

Yes, I play a little bit of bass, I’m not too brilliant at it yet. I play it on one of my new tracks. At heart I am a piano player, I am feeling a lot more confident about playing guitar and I’m playing it more and more frequently on records and things. I always think of myself as a piano player who dabbles with other things. The piano just comes as 2 nd nature to me, I can play the drums…. badly! I love playing different things because you can get such a different vibe. I write songs in different ways on different instruments.

I think most people take time off touring to record. I loved recording but I can’t wait to get back performing and playing live I love doing it all. I’m just so incredulous that I have finished this bloody record it’s been such a long time! I have to pinch myself everyday.