Cancer Charity on Friday night, she exclusively told MailOnline: 'When my my ex-partner died, I was with her for 16 years and that's a long, long time. . 'For two years, I couldn't write a lyric.
I just couldn't write because everything I was writing was very sad and I didn't want to show people I was in that sad place. 'It was very hard for me to actually release anything at that time and go on stage and pretend to be happy.
I was quite sad but time is a healer and then I met Linda. 'I didn't think at that age, I'd ever meet someone again I was going to settle down with for the rest of my life and I have and I'm in such a great place. 'You get to your 50s and you lose the, you know, Myra was the love of my life and we were together 16 years and I didn't ever think I was going to be with anybody else. 'I thought that was my life mapped out.
So when I met Linda and I fell in love, it was instant love when we met each other. It really was and I'm just so happy. 'I'm happy I've met such a wonderful, beautiful inside and out person and I can trust her implicitly.
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