Dave Matthews, from The Dave Matthew’s Band fame, is the co-founder of ATO, Jem’s American label. When they signed Jem they added her to a diverse roster which includes David Gray, My Morning Jacket and Ben Kweller. It’s a label that Jem describes as ‘friendly,' with organised drinking sessions and one that allowed her to have creativity on the album. She also describes it as ‘close and almost family like.’ They even drop hints to its parent company RCA, of how much Dave Matthews' appreciates her music, which of course, never hurts.

So what was it like to receive the album for the first time after its completion?

"Ah, that's another one of those 'weird' things. I didn't have the album. I'd been waiting for ages for a copy and I go to KCRW weirdly to do my first ever MTV interview and they wanted to interview Nic (Harcourt) as well. So we go there and Nic turns around and goes, 'Oh thanks for the credit, the album looks wicked,' and I'm like, 'How do you know?' 'Oh I've got 500 copies upstairs!' To be fair he'd just got it in the post that day but I was like, 'Erm, can I have one please?' So yeah the album I got was from Nic. He presented it to me this time last year. kind of trippy y'know?"

Jem's personal music collection hosts a wide range of styles and artists ranging from Marvin Gaye to Wu Tang Clan. But was there anything else aside that could possibly shape her musical output?

"Funnily enough, the song '24' is inspired by the TV show so I have written songs in that respect, so I could be watching TV or reading a book. I get inspired by Buddhist philosophy. Well if you take something like that it's interesting because it's not really religion, it's more like lifestyle and kind of self help so there's things you can read into that which can be relevant to everyone. 'Save Me' for example, that's a song about having a crazy mind and how to calm it down and so that came from that. I can get inspired by pretty much anything." >>