I think I’m also more interested in the way words sound and what you can do if you say words in different ways than in what the words actually mean. I can’t really say which authors or books have influenced me – I can never remember names – but it’s really just certain groups of words and the way they sound.

Fraser on how she created the lyrics for Cocteau Twins songs, using words and phrases in a tumbling, flow of consciousness way, rather than coherent sentences, yes still convey meaning and feeling through the power of music to do so.