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track. So that got recorded and about six weeks later I heard it on the radio, which was just
absolutely wonderful because obviously I'd never been on the radio before. So to hear us there
on the radio was absolutely brilliant, and then to top it all, it actually went to number one with
Isaac Banks Radio in Australia. So I was absolutely over the moon. I just couldn't believe it, I
really couldn't.

BiTS: That's wonderful. Wonderful. Do you like listening to your own voice, Debra?

DS: Well, I think so, sort of. That's sort of a difficult one because I never want to sound like
conceited, do you know what I mean? But I think as long as I believe in the music I write, and as
long as everybody else enjoys it, and as long as I like the song, then I'm quite happy. But no, I
mean I probably wouldn't listen to myself all day
Ritchie Dave Porter with Debra Susan and their
long.
producer Richard Tingle
RDP: I mean, you know me, when I’ve been asked
that question before, by yourself or other

journalists or broadcasters and they say, do you
like listening to yourself, Ritchie? I say absolutely
because I'm making the music that I would go out
and buy myself. I mean, I love listening to
everything from Led Zeppelin to Aerosmith, to
The Black Crowes, to The Beatles, to Queen. To
the original blues guys, and I’m making the sort
of riffs and music that I would personally want to
buy myself and listen to. So yes, I do like listening
to my own records. I just think if you don't like
your own music then what's the point making it?

DS: Yeah, yeah.

BiTS: Yes, well, I can understand that. Yeah, I can
understand that. I really was meaning whether
you like the sound of your own voice.

DS: Well, I think so, yes. I mean, I just hope that
everybody else does. You know, I mean certainly
in terms of writing songs, for me to write anything, I have to believe in it myself, and a lot of what
I've written, particularly the earlier music, a lot of the earlier songs that I wrote were based on
past experiences and are very much from the heart. So I have a lot of material to write about that

came quite naturally, like, for example, ‘Broken Dreams’, which was actually a factual thing based
on a previous relationship. I always find sometimes that if we perform that one at gigs, I'm
thinking, oh, I'd rather forget that part of my past, do you know what I mean? But having said
that, it provided me with valuable material to sort of write about, and for me in terms of writing
a song, it has to be instant because, in other words, if I have to agonise over it, then it sort of
wouldn't work, if that makes sense. So I don't spend hours on end working out what lyric will
go with this, it's sort of all done at the same time and it has to be pretty instant because if I have
to think about it too much then it wouldn't work. Then I think it would become hard work. It has
to be pretty instant and then, as I say, whatever I write, I have to believe in and I have to believe
that other people are going to enjoy it, or at least hopefully they are.

BiTS: Yes, yes, I can understand that. I spoke to a musician, I won't mention his name, some time
ago, he is a songwriter who said that he threw away at least two thirds of what he wrote.