Freya Ridings

I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love it. ”

I'm on a group chat with my dad which he named 'Dearest Daughter'. It's so sweet because I don't think he really understands that a group chat normally has more than two people but I love chatting with him in it anyway. ”

I'm obsessed with Beyonce. She's just effervescent, I love her. ”

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano. ”

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born. ”

I heard that your subconscious is on the right side. I always shut my right eye when I play, or both eyes. I feel like you go to a deeper place in your subconscious, and you tell the stories that are more deeply within you. ”

The thing with 'Lost Without You' is that for a long time I didn't feel like I could share it with people. When it came to releasing it, it was a cliff-diving moment. ”

Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing. ”

At the age of 11 I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do. ”

I remember in 2016 when I got signed to my record label Good Soldier, which is a very small indie label. They took a big risk on me because ballads were the furthest thing from cool at the time. ”