You’re new album Lioness is 100 per cent female produced? 

It is. I am really excited about it. This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time and worked with some amazingly talented women along the way.

You have written some personal and poignant songs. You wrote on a Facebook post you don’t usually write love songs. Why now?

I think I avoided love songs. I never felt like I was very qualified on the subject I suppose. Why now? Well, I got married in February of this year. I suppose now I understand what all those love songs are all about. It makes sense now.

You have a passion for sharing the idea of female strength and female power. Is that in your thinking when you’re creating music?

Without a doubt. For me it has always been pretty much a blokes world in the music industry in those positions of power – musicians, producers, heads of record companies, things like that.

I wanted to change the way we think, change ideals but also change the perceptions for young girls who are in these positions thinking, ‘actually I want to be a drummer, but everyone says that is for boys’.

It starts when you’re young and is an ingrained misogyny. The more we can change perceptions and do something like this that is a real celebration of women in music even through to the art that is on the album, I think it is really important for everybody.

You can also send a message through your lyrics as well. Is that something you have done with your songs in this new album? 

Without a doubt. It is about strength of character for anyone I hope – women and men. From my point of view, I am a woman, writing songs with that kind of message and strength. I write about stuff that is important to me, issues that are important and feelings that I have.

Those songs are going to work the best because they are real, they are experiences that I’ve had and observations that I make and it has all come out in a creative way.

Have you been to Ballarat before?

I have, many times. I love it.

I did one of my very first television shoots in Ballarat 25 years ago. It was a music video program that I hosted and they took me to Eureka Stockade and I had to dress up in old dress. I was about 18 or something and I had to introduce Keith Urban. That was a long time ago. 

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