Sometimes people ask me if my songs are autobiographical. The short answer is that mostly not. I sometimes feel a bit like a writer of short stories. In the song Ashes and Roses See https://soundcloud.com/mia-pearl the story is about a woman who has had a great heart break- losing the love of her life whilst she was pregnant, "his seed still inside". We initially called the main character Eve and then took that out when it didn't seem to fit with the other lyrics in the song. I had the idea for Ashes and Roses song whilst I was dozing in bed at about 6am and then developed the melody whilst I was having a shower that morning (at a less ridiculously early time!). I really into the emotion of the song, it's probably one of the saddest songs I've written and I could imagine being the shoes of Eve when songwriting. Ashes and Roses was a collaboration with a few other musicians outside of Mia Pearl and so has a different style to some of my other songs. A lot of new song ideas I get when I'm in bed, or in the shower or in the kitchen. On Sunday I was sitting in the kitchen and had a new flow of new song ideas..Some good, some dodgy, some exciting...I like to wait and see which melodies stick in my head or which I just really freaking like to know which ones to work to develop into a full song. It usually just starts with a melody in the shower or the kitchen. Really.