How did the audience react to the new songs ?

They love them, they really love them, it's wonderfull, it's a good surprise.

Once again you have worked with some friends of yours ( Willam Orbit, The Chemical Brothers, Ben Watt) during the mix of "Daybreaker", does this affect your inspiration, your creative work of the very begining of the inspiration ?

Basically when I wrote a song I don't worry about how they produce all the music that goes with it. I just write and take that to my band and between us we arrange the music and create the sound. Sometimes it starts with me and Ted writting a song together, sometimes it starts right away with songs on my own and then take it to them. But either way I think it becomes a parent to what it needs. Sometimes it needs nothing, sometimes it needs no band it just needs to be striped right back to guitar and cello. When live it's better than records in the sense that we take what Tom and Ed ( The Chemical Brothers) would do, but we have the songs before they mix them so it's embelished, more exciting in a way, it's rougher.

Who is Bobby Gentry?

It's one my favorite singer, she is an American Country singer.

Last time that you play here in "Café de la Danse " in Paris, three years ago, you played "Thinking about tomorrow" for the very first time and we then had the chance to discover this song, have you created a new song that you will play tonight?

I haven't any new songs to play tonight. I mean I have got new songs, but you know one of the funny about tourring is that I'd be on a creating kind of flow, I'd be writting and getting things together and then I'd go on tour and it all goes on an hole and I've been tourring now for a couple of months and the songs that I started I now need to finish...Some of them are finished, I could do a new song tonight but I' ll see, may be I will, may be I won't, but there's so much to do anyway, it's like an introduction, a re-introduction this tour...
There's almost not enough time to do more new songs cause a lot of the people haven't heard the new songs that are already there anyway so, it's a long set you'll see tonight, it's quite enough almost.
The band is just amazing...

What do you think about the comparison people are making about you and Joni Mitchell?

I think it's really complimentary, I think you couldn't get a greater acolade than to be liken to Joni Mitchell...
[Silence]
I'm incredibly flaterred, but you know, I don't know what Joni Mitchell would think...

You have had bad days back in 1999, after " Central Reservation" came out, the Press considered that your lyrics were kind of depresive...You felt very bad about that, and you nearly quit...
What do you think about that by now?

I guess they were right in a way, I was depresed. At that time I didn't really realised I was depressed, because I supposed one day, I'll sit back and analyse...
[Ted Barnes enters in the room and interrupted her]
In an way the second album was depressive, wasn't it Ted? I don't know ...I mean songs like " Sweetest Decline" or "Feel to Believe" or " Central Reservation" are just blessing, so beautiful, but I don't know, people say what they say , I always say that if people interprete those songs are depressed it's because they're depressed.
Maybe it was sad, I had sad things to sing about. I'm sorry; I didn't want to bring anyone down, to depress anyone.

I think that the problem is that your lyrics touch everyone in the heart...

That can be good if you're aware of yourself, if you're not, that could be scary probably...

What do you plan to do for the following months? Are you working on your fourth album?

I'm working on it pretty much, every minute I get. For me it's not like I'm working on an album, I'm just writting cause that is what I do. I found that tourring really breaks up that flow like I said earlier but I gonna start in December demo of the new songs.

Keith Yap who created Beth-lehem, one of the most original site about you, Beth, would like to know when you will tour in Singapore where he lives so he could have a chance to see you....

Singapore?...Ted, are we going to Singapore?...
[Ted: I'd love to...anytime...]

Beth, did you or did you not said : " It's good to be in my vagina in the morning"?

[She laughs a lot....]
Yes I did, it's an old traditional folk song...How does it go again Ted?
[She begins to sing a melody]
"Wouldn't be nice to wake up in my vagina in the morning....."

Beth, is there any chance that you would be looking for a French romance?

[She laughs]
Yes, of course...Who wouldn't?....

Thank you Beth!