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Nerina Pallot

Nerina Pallot

British singer-songwriter

May 31, 2026

17:21
[laughs]
17:21
Nap time becomes the most creative possible moment of your day.
17:25
But I also felt my son was not very well when he was little, and I had tremendous guilt.
17:31
I gave birth to him eight hours after being in the studio.
17:35
I was making my fourth record, and I was recording it right until the night before I had him.
17:41
I was lying in bed with him.
17:44
He was a few hours old, and I was listening to the string session coming through.

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25:29
Can you explain a little bit about that, about your journey?
19:21
[laughs]
19:21
Either creatively or business-wise.
19:25
And so there's a couple of things, and most of the time I didn't regret that.
19:29
Most of those decisions I made were right.
19:32
Like, one manager who has, I won't say their name, but they've had a lot of, uh, subsequently, my instinct was right th- 'cause they've been knowingly seen to be a bit of a sleaze and what have you.
19:46
So something in me said, "Don't go near this person." But then I also turned down opportunities to work with some massive names, like massive names, because I was scared really and I thought I wouldn't be able to, I don't know, bring my, my A game, you know? And I got to, and I, even when I did work with big names, I would always get a bit choked and a bit scared, and I just realized that my personality is c- uh, creatively quite shy.
20:18
I just didn't thrive.

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36:47
No.

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