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She also rejects the notion that her song lyrics are autobiographical.

In 1998, she told The Times: " the tortured artist myth is rampant.

People paint me as some kind of black witchcraft-practising devil from hell, that I have to be twisted and dark to do what I am doing.

It's a load of rubbish " and later told Spin: " some critics have taken my writing so literally to the point that they'll listen to ' Down by the Water ' and believe I have actually given birth to a child and drowned her.