The advice I would give to young songwriters is...

“Follow your heart, speak with your own inner voice and don’t try and be anybody else. Also, in this day and age, there’s nothing more important than having a real awareness of the business you’re in – I have wonderful business managers who talked me out of putting my money into trampoline centres and go-kart tracks! But I’m also talking about the larger, more global approach to understanding the business environment.