"You can't really write your own story. You've just got to surrender to whatever happens. And I have no idea what the future holds."
When I meet Missy Higgins on a cold Melbourne morning at Bakehouse Studios, she's come ready to talk. The beloved Australian songwriter, who we first met as a teenager when she won triple j's Unearthed competition in 2001, has grown with us. Yet while crafting songs that have been a soundtrack in our lives, Missy's own experiences have both fuelled and derailed her greatest passion.
We're sitting down to Take 5, a long-running radio segment and podcast that I'm bringing to ABC TV for the first time. Missy and I have spoken many times over the years, and I've always held her in high regard as one of our greatest songwriters and performers. I've often observed that the Missy Higgins the public sees is not the Missy she sees herself. Exploring that, I asked her to pick five songs around the theme of "identity".
