I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

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• Joan Armatrading:

  Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

• Joan Armatrading:

  My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

• Joan Armatrading:

  You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary t

• Joan Armatrading:

  So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how

• Joan Armatrading:

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• Joan Armatrading:

  When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody

• Joan Armatrading:

  All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get

• Joan Armatrading:

  So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want argume

• Joan Armatrading:

  So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

• Joan Armatrading:

  This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours togeth