‘It made me a pop star – and I’m crap at being a pop star’: KT Tunstall on Suddenly I See

‘I sound angelic’ … KT Tunstall. Photograph: C Brandon/Redferns

KT Tunstall, singer, songwriter, guitarist

I’d been living in Edinburgh, on the dole, trying to make it as a musician. I was once so skint that I stole broccoli from a field. I moved down to London in 2000, having signed a record deal, but I was in that awful situation where the label was saying: “We need singles.”