I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. ↗
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships. ↗