Eddi Reader

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.