KT Tunstall

From the age of eight I’d been in love with theatre and at 16 I was in a little theatre group in St Andrews’ Byre Theatre and I’d been accepted into the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow. But suddenly I had this epiphany that I didn’t want someone else to be writing the words or a director telling me what to do. I wanted to create my own stuff and be my own boss. I was a bit defiant, a bit weird, as a kid, a bit of a dreamer. So when we had a party at the end of a production and everyone was asked to do a little skit, I played a song instead. It was the first time I’ve ever played a song for people after I taught myself guitar. And it was like, whoa, that went down well! So that was a really pivotal moment