Quotes from Edith Bowman

When I went to university, I got work experience at my local radio station, and I used to spend hours in what was then the CD library. I was supposed to be filing the CDs, but I was actually randomly picking stuff up and blaring it out of the speakers.

I went to my first live concert when I was seven, with my mum Eleanor, a staunch Rod Stewart fan. I've never looked back.

I stopped breathing when I was a baby. I had a seizure because I was severely epileptic and my grandad had to hang me upside down and give me the kiss of life.

When we travel as a family, there needs to be a cultural element or sporty, outdoorsy things to keep us occupied.

Combining a live event with the option of streaming means that everyone can enjoy the beauty, emotion and exuberance of watching their favourite artist play live.

If you're getting stressed, it's OK, life is stressful.

If I'm really angry or upset, you have the ability to use music to vent, like therapy in a way.

Christine Boar, who gave me my first screen test at MTV, saw something in me others hadn't. She liked my accent and didn't ask me to change it.

Radio was always a doorway to something for me growing up.

I go to bed at 9:30 P.M. and I like to watch TV as I drift off.

Things have definitely changed for me since becoming a mother, but I haven't for one second lost the essence of who I am and what I do.

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.