Donna Lewis Has Recently Released A String Of New Music As Part Of Her Collaborative Project With Composer - Producer David Lowe.

Now, you've always kind of followed your own creative path and you was authentic in the way that you did it.

How did you find yourself evolving once that song hit? Major labels have their ideas of what you should do.

Management has an idea of what you should do.

You have an idea of what you should do.

You have to stay true to yourself.

So how did you compact all these things into a nice little package so that everybody could coexist, but you could keep evolving?

It was a tricky one.

I think, you know, I was older, you know, I wasn't, you know, I didn't get my deal at 21.

I was older.

So I think I'd lived this life and I think I was very realistic with the business.

I kind of understood that, you know, Atlantic were driven by hit songs.

Right.

And so I didn't let that affect me because I've never been a writer that feels, oh my gosh, you know, I have to write another I Love You Always Forever and I have to really think of writing pop hits.

Sure.

I did stay true to myself as a writer.

So I just carried on.

I mean, you know, we moved to Dublin Island to make the next record, Blue Planet, and I just carried on writing and doing what I felt was me.

My management were very good.

They let me be who I was.

However,

you know, there were a couple of things, you know, I remember when the Anastasia song.

Well, first of all, I remember the film Anastasia asked me to write a song for the end of the film, which I did.

Then I think they decided to use the song that the writers of the whole musical had written.

So they asked me if I do this duet with Richard Marks.

And I think Richard will agree both of us didn't like it at first.