I think it was a combination of meeting a nice guy when I was 18 and moving away from home to go to uni. My life settled down, the boy(s) that had been causing trouble were out of my life (or so I thought... !!) and then I went away to uni where I didn't have a piano.
So for a few years, my life was studying maths and everything was pretty quiet otherwise.
I wasn't in enough emotional turmoil to write songs!
All these words are very much from the heart and actually true, if you see what I mean. I don't know if I could write something that wasn't real.