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ILM: So you stepped up to the challenge.

ANDREA: Yes.

ILM: How are Sharon, Caroline and Jim?

ANDREA: They're great. They're really good. They're babytastic! Caroline has three and Sharon is pregnant with her second and Jim and Gail have a little boy. They're pretty full on manic mummys and daddys at the moment.

ILM: Your voice is beautiful, as are you…

ANDREA: That's nice. Thank you.

ILM: At Netaid at Wembley I remember you lifted your hair up and started singing and there was this collective gasp from the audience at your beauty. (Sorry to gush but it has to be said) How do you keep yourself and your voice in shape?

ANDREA: To be honest I'm not great at all those things. I have a real lust for life. I find it sometimes decadent not to do bold things. And how do I look after my voice? Well, for touring, I'll go to a lot of steam rooms if I can in hotels and use ginger and lemon, so I suppose just that. Luckily I have a good appetite and what I eat is generally healthy.

ILM: You have a natural gift for lyrical storytelling. Can you describe the Andrea Corr process of making music?

ANDREA: More often than not, I'll start with the piano. All the songs were written on the piano, so I'll start playing the piano and then I'll like some chords that I start playing and the way they progress together and then, with that, I'll start singing a melody and then with that I'll start singing some nonsense and words and then something will come out that I like the idea of and I'll develop it.

ILM: Any tips or advice for budding artists and producers starting out?

ANDREA: I suppose my advice would be that your focus should always be on what you're creating and not on the incidental parts of it, like celebrity and fame. Even for a person's own fulfilment, they should know they're creating this themselves and that they're worthy of it, because in an awful lot of cases, if your focus is not on the right thing, it's quite destructive for the person, because they just can't cope with what comes, because they're not worthy of it, because they didn't work for it.

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