In Massachusetts following the charge he released a You Tube video in which he portrayed his character from House of Cards Frank Underwood in it he appears to deny doing anything wrong our correspondent is Vincent out I think it's a very odd thing to do to mix what is now your most famous character certainly in recent years with your own legal and moral problems it's unclear if the release of the video today is totally coincidental or not Mr Space is facing a number of allegations of sexual misconduct a couple who were arrested after suspected drone sightings that get wake so they've been left deeply distressed Elaine Kirk and Paul Gates have now been freed without charge and police say they are no longer suspects but there are before their release the couple were named by some media outlets Mr Gay has given a statement to Sky knees as you can probably imagine we're feeling very feeling completely violated our home is being searched and our privacy in our tensely completely exposed our names photos and other personal information has been full cause throughout the wailed. 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Distressed a sort of family and friends Sussex Police say they're investigating 67 possible drone sightings 373 people are now known to have died in Saturday's tsunami in Indonesia dozens more my missing and rescue workers are using heavy lifting equipment to clear blocked roads as they try to reach cut off areas Luis affair Eunice is from the British Red Cross we know from past experience people can survive quite a long time even if they've been trapped under rubble the key thing is having access to water and air and not being affected by critical injuries so the search and rescue is in a critical phase right now there is still hope for many people but we need to act Meanwhile dozens of medium sized earthquakes have been recorded around the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna lava and ash clouds have been spewing from the mountain for several hours now forcing some airports to close a man with British Iranian nationality who was detained in Iran in April on security charges has been released professor added that an expert in computer science at Imperial College London has now returned to the U.K. The development has been welcomed by Richard Radcliffe whose wife NASA name has been detained in Iran for more than 2 years I think today's news is obviously positive there have been other positives there also been some negatives and you know I spent my time looking at the tea leaves and having that happens and trying to read what it means for us. 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Before going on to stop the Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible the next occurred but 1st week year 2 of my favorite ever music to bring in All Saints and start with the magic that is anonymous most of us sit back and enjoy my Christmas right. With all the 5 life. I welcome to the Sunday session Atlanta smartass thank you for having. Because I have here we're actually backstage I've somehow managed to get myself into the Green Room of the event I'm Apollo I did get permission a room let's cut it really I know the good thing about radio is no one can see just how. Grammars the room is it's rock it's fucking road all the way. It's great to talk to you less than 2 hours before you go on stage so I feel like should you be doing something I'm taking away from that what would you be doing if you weren't talking to me now I'd probably be you know lifting 500 pound weights and satisfied that's what I did before that is the New This is the new slow life you know I right now if I weren't talking with you I would probably be stretching or you know eating feel free to stress during this interview and I can I can join in forget that I have all. I can think of no one can see what we're actually doing that my legs are right around my neck at the moment. Sorry but I will let you figure out what. Visual you've been touring 16 younger younger than that I made my 1st record when I was 10 I had a record company 11 as you do as one might do so yeah I started then and then I had a couple records in Canada they had asked me a few record companies about releasing records around the planet during teen time for me and I didn't want to leave school I just I had I had the sense that if I left school and started travelling the planet at 16 that things might go so pretty quickly I staved it all very mature and a young age I think most young people especially today would jump at the chance and I just want to kind of go for it probably the Canadian part of me you just want to stay alive and could maybe foresee some some challenges you know I've seen people go the way of all things in other circumstances but during that time when I was 10 people weren't signing people you know as embryos there were no kids being signed them that was kind of thought as child abuse but you know here I am many therapy sessions later and it's still a life it's no surprise you know people talk about you say you're the lyrical master of human emotion you know I got. No pressure but it's strange I've never met you before but I feel like I know you and I think I told all of my girlfriends and actually that guy friends I was going to meet you they all went. Everywhere just you know she knows I think it's lovely it's a compliment but it's probably also a best oh I love it I love it because I just feel as though what I meet people in that kind of yeah I just described it's very permission to be human the permission to be human and I'm offering it certainly to others through my art but I also feel it being offered back to me when I meet people so big breath how has that changed because I'm assuming when you 1st start out and everyone feels like they know you and are maybe owed a piece of you because you've been in their life there was a lot more projection and what I mean by that is there were a lot there were a lot of people who were. You know saying oh you're my ex-girlfriend or you remind me of my mother You remind me of the ex you know the ex the dumped me or you remind me of the woman of my dreams even you know it wasn't very personal in some ways yeah in other ways it was and then I think here we are 20 some odd years on and I think that we've evolved or shifted or changed to the point where the feminist movement the feminist movement a lot of activism a lot of changes have happened to the point where people are even more somehow receptive and I I think I think my lucky stars if I can call them that for the fact that I can still sing these songs because it could have easily been such that I don't want to you know I didn't want to sing any of the songs that I wrote when I was 19 I've heard you talk about this actually with Oprah talking about a lot of people thought you were very angry all the time the. Same with you know I say I'm a feminist people think oh you. Know what is she going to do. But it is kind of changing that right because you seem very happy person the nice Yeah I've often found that artists who are singularity and one dimensional be perceived as angry you know name some Eminem and otherwise you know when you meet. And some of it is because we can start in our Yeah and some of it also is it's certainly the feminist movement and woman body obviously but also 2 motions that were never allowed for me as a kid were sadness specifically anger and if you can believe it even happiness and conviviality enjoy and you know being a few Sivan all that was just seen as so unhip in on we was the way to go so so I think this this world is embracing the fact that we're feeling creatures it's not brain surgery it's not scary just is what it is we have feelings there are messages we take them up on it or not and we feel where he. Says celebrity we live in a world where everyone is to be a celebrity but you say you can use that as a tool to do what you want to do with it what do you want to do with US Well I think in the sixties and seventies there were so many sort of political commentaries through music. You know Woodstock era and all of that it was very much fame being used as a means to an end with the end being activism or service of some kind consciously or otherwise whereas now fame is the end people think if I'm famous and certainly I was sold this bill of goods if I'm famous I'm going to be loved and I'm going to be Coombe eyeing with Kate Moss and I are going to be licking each other's cheeks and just be so she is you know they've done the last you know I can only predict. The night is young and. So my point is just that eventually fame for me was sort of broken apart in the illusion it became real I realize that fame is almost like a tool it's not an end for me it's been 6 years since the last album and I know you're writing at the moment actually you've written a lot of songs can you tell me to much he will be performing some tonight we're not performing any of the new songs I'm calling it the piano record but I likely pretty seriously it'll show up is what it's going to show up as and I never know going in but but we're in the middle of beginning the process of finishing the record I have about $23.00 songs that have been written throughout the last year and a half and will likely pick I think 11 is a magic number and then and then do some extras for each have performed a few demos and I know for the legend I was very lucky to have met and interviewed him when he was in London a few years ago Chester Bennington. Yes well that potentially Yeah that'll be on the record if if I have my say and that which of course and that. I make a call or 2 but there are there were songs like ironic and different songs that I just you know I liked enough but I didn't want them on the record and there will be us no people would talk me into putting songs on records and I think that's really valuable because I am in a vacuum I think part of the nature of being an artist is being really interpersonal introspective interior and we need our loved ones around us to go. Like this sorry it's. Well your mom and I as well as ever and Onyx Yes yes. As. I suppose it's very obvious question how does that how does that change how does that change you as a recording artist as a touring artist as it has shown me the degree to which my adrenal glands can overflow. It is showing me that I can live on 0 sleep. Every veteran says Show me the values of caffeine. Really it is just show me a version of service and showing up in consistency inconstancy and you know containing you know containing what I need to process of my husband or my friends or my professional teammates a little later the kids are asleep often I do my you know my greatest quote unquote greatest work from you know midnight till 4 in the morning because that's when nobody did for me like I do you find you sleep. You know odd hours very odd hours I sleep when I can and I used to think you know if I don't have enough sleep I won't make it but I get enough and I want to talk about story that you talk about this is a long long time ago with an ex-boyfriend I was when you were dating you were and. You were in Hyde Park and he said this is a very good question that you asked him and you said what is the worst thing your ex would say about you he said that I'm a narcissist not this this is too much sex is something I was ecstatic. To listen much awareness and I'm just wondering what would be the worst thing your ex would say about you. You know I think a lot of my exes started off thinking that they were empowered Beta's as I call them that they could support a very empowered feminine and a sort of an alpha oriented creature but then when they got into the trenches with me at the end of the day they were actually alphas maybe sort of latent alphas and they came into who they really were during the process of dating me and 2 alphas you know can get along like a house on fire and certainly move worlds but sometimes in relationships a complimentary dynamic can really make for a very long long standing relationship so. Sometimes they would think yell support you to the ends of the earth alone as Morris that and you know 6 months and they be like you know what I changed my mind I can't take this I'm not coming to visit you want or I don't care what you're talking about I don't value what you value I said all that because I want to have sex. So so for me it's about really getting clear and that's a maturation thing that's being a grown up knowing what you really ultimately and there's plenty of men my husband especially It's why I married him who really do look at me and they get turned on by who I am versus versus thinking it's sexy and hot a lot of chemistry with this alpha woman and then we can offer pedestals and we get squished in our wings and you know they attempt to clip the wings and that's never going to work do you think you know before you met your husband a lot of it was to do with because you were successful I mean because people had an idea of you that you know that it was you say there are a lot of smarts that you know not even call your 1st name as the title yeah do you think that was probably I've got a lot of friends who sometimes especially successful women like my mates who are very successful they find her single and they find it's because they're so ambitious that that's making it harder to find a man perhaps me if they're heterosexual perhaps making it harder to find a certain kind of man in the end there may be a lot of sexual chemistry with Alpha Alpha other often is a lot of chemistry professionally too I say work with of people but don't necessarily marry. You know they're all part of the journey aren't they in the end but ultimately my my my little $0.02 worth is is if you're an alpha woman and you know there's a plan there's plenty of sexy high beta men who live to support you yeah find those Yeah I've got one I'm looking. For me. Yeah I love me. For me and I remember when I was about 4 years old I asked for the Wilson Phillips album and my mom bought it for me she's very very deeply Mom Oh I just met. I just remember this one lyric which was no one can change a life except for you hold on and then I remember the same we talked about that the journey in the relationships that go wrong and when you say you learned I recommend getting your your heart trumped on by anyone like for me that was like you know loss yes I went through something horrible but I actually recommend that I wouldn't know what good is until I experience the bad contrast you kind of say that makes her feel better when you know you're like I don't want to hear that right now well talk about that when I'm 7 that is said that she recommends getting your are trying to think this is not the time to tell me how right this is but I'm just wondering because I suppose your Derrick's have so much meaning for so many people for you as a youth and even now still youthful What is the favorite your favorite that you wrote was that you kind of think well I was doing well but that one part of that come from I think about the bridge in Thank You The moment I like it was the moment I got more than I can have the moment I jumped off it was a moment I touched down because for me when I really breathe and really get silent and let myself cry and that myself rage nondestructively of course you know what I let myself be. All clear income. But you know we live in an age where you know the podcast you can put anything you want out there straight away the same with musicians which when you 1st started that you know you don't wasn't that wasn't the case how do you think if you were that 10 year old now would you have a You Tube channel with you know would you be putting stuff out and i Tunes problem would you be entering X. Factor would you be entering Pop Idol but this is something maybe I did Star Search when I was 14 or 15 that was absolutely traumatizing. You know it's like getting an apple in a car to compete you know just kick competition as art is so silly it's like colors being compared yellow is better than orange wait what I'm confused but I do appreciate you know how brave this new generation is to show up and use their gifts and just you know sing from the rooftops and they just boggled my mind but as a as a child starting my own record company was sort of the 1980 S. Version of taking it into your own hands and record companies God bless them they've been so good to me over the years but in some ways it was a bottleneck you know when you were sort of. You were you were accountable to them in some ways whereas now there's more freedom and more diffuse it's like a big it's a big festival of people just being self expressed you know and if fame is the goal there then it might be more challenging for some but if self-expression is the goal this is the time to be alive as an artist well lovely way to and we'll take our legs from around our shoulders to our stretches you are how we tried to see me there. Was no South Buffalo. Thank you so much as an idjit to get to talk to you and also to speak so positively when the so much of the stuff and negative things going on in the world and I am aware you're on stage soon so I let you go and do you think thank you very much and yes thank you for being so smart an awful. Lot I. Welcome to the Sunday session thank you for having It's great to have you here and . 2 years ago you had the comeback the big comeback everyone talks about and you know there's a lot of bands that get back together and it's kind of think is it when