Anything Inspires Imogen Heap’s Songwriting

Imogen Heap spoke with Billboard.com about her third album ‘Ellipse’, due August 25th, and described her songwriting process. “Anything and anything inspires what I write,” Heap says in the video. “So it can be a conversation with a friend, or an argument, or it could just be the sound of one of my many strange and wonderful instruments that will just begin a pattern, and then I’ll throw some lyrics on it that maybe I don’t quite know what it is yet, but they feel like nice shapes, and then it will become something that’s maybe kind of deep in my subconscious.”

In a second video, Heap talked about the inspiration behind her new single ‘First Train Home’ and the sounds of her family house that pop up throughout ‘Ellipse’.

Watch the interview clips below.