My voice is a folk voice. So that's what guides my writing. I grew up singing church music, even though I wasn't at all religious, because choral singing is very clean and comes from the heart- people are singing about something that moves them. So, I took that authenticity and said "What do I want to sing?" And this session is the result. I draw on quite a few influences; there is a great tradition, in folk, of taking traditional songs and re-arranging them. So to start with, I took words that inspired me, from "Amazing Grace", and gave the tune a melancholic structure, a new twist to an old friend. That gave me the confidence to write my own things.