<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"Paloma Faith has admitted that her time as a wedding singer helped inspire her to write her own material. The star revealed that she used to perform covers of &amp;#039;50s blues and rock at celebrations and that the experience has directly influenced her original material.  &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think it was exactly a song that inspired me to start songwriting,&amp;quot; Faith explained during a Q&amp;amp;A on MUZU. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t know I was going to be a professional musician so I just started to sing cover songs.  &amp;quot;There were a collection of &amp;#039;50s blues and rock&amp;#039;n&amp;#039;roll songs that I was singing when I was in a covers band for weddings. &amp;quot;People used to say to me, &amp;#039;You sound great singing them but you should write your own&amp;#039;. So I think at first when I started writing I was inspired by those songs and now it&amp;#039;s organically changing as I go along.  She added: &amp;quot;But it was that experience of singing covers that really inspired me.&amp;quot; The star answered a collection of questions from fans during the 30-minute interview, which was in support of her new single &amp;#039;30 Minute Love Affair&amp;#039;. The track is the second cut to be lifted from Faith&amp;#039;s latest album Fall to Grace and was officially released on August 12. Watch Paloma Faith&amp;#039;s full interview with MUZU below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a399389/paloma-faith-being-a-wedding-singer-inspired-me-to-write-songs/>