Quotes from Edith Bowman

Any female who can hold her own in a male dominated environment is impressive.

Having an opportunity to sit down with Directors, Actors, Musicians, Writers and Composers to talk about their relationship with music, both professionally and personally is my idea of heaven.

I would love to get solar panels installed to help us work towards generating our own energy supply.

Dad was great fun and I was a real daddy's girl. I inherited my love of music from him.

I learned to ski from the age of three, which is something I really want to pass on to my son, Rudy.

I like learning new skills and the feeling of going back to school.

I love my job but there is a lot of travelling involved.

I love snowboarding and being in the mountains.

I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.

My happy place is having a Saturday morning while everybody else is just mooching about and I'll do a big old batch cook and have music on in the kitchen.

Before an interview, I'll go down a rabbit hole of research - it's amazing how many little nuggets you can pick up from watching YouTube videos.

Mum is the glue who keeps us together. She's a bag of love whose sole purpose is to help others.

New Zealand is breathtaking.

Baby Jane' is a tune, what a sax solo. And The Faces' 'Stay With Me' is amazing.

Nothing beats getting lost in the world of a good book with a fabulous soundtrack.

I've got a tiny little twist in the tooth to the right of my two front teeth that my dad, my aunt and my grandad have all had. It's really weird; it's the Bowman twist. I don't know what it is about my mouth, but it looks a bit wonky to me.

I guess, for me, it's almost a religion; watching music live is more often than not a spiritual experience for me.

My Nana Gladys never left the house without lipstick on; she always had matching nails and lips.

That's the power of music, a key sequence or a chord sequence or even a note can do something to you physically that's uncontrollable.

I'm on Spotify and Soundcloud all the time.

I hate it when people are rude to service staff. I grew up in my family's hotel and experienced it first-hand.

I had no choice in having two C-sections and I can't believe the lack of understanding of people who assume I have not 'put the work in' or don't have the same connection with my child that I would have had if I'd had natural birth.

Doing radio breakfast shows makes you the most unhealthy person in the world. It's like having jet lag and you just eat at really weird times.

To be honest, I didn't really enjoy much of uni life. I turned up for lectures, I got my degree - the rest of the time was spent at the radio station.