Susanne Gervay - The Questions & Answers

So what do you want to know? The Questions & Answers.

What does music mean to you?
Music has always been important to me. It's always been my
way of working out life especially when it gets hard. It's helped me through the worst of times and has also been with me at the best of times.

How long have you played music?
I've been playing music since I've been 5. But I've been singing since I could talk.

What do you play?
The piano, the trumpet and some basic guitar.

What do you really, secretly, privately want to be?
That's a really hard question to answer, but it's MUSIC. Whatever I can do with music. But it's so hard to make it.

Who do you admire most in music?
There are so many! Everyone from Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach - to Pink & Eminem.

I love lots of jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong. He plays a fantastic trumpet. There's Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis too. I've played the trumpet in jazz bands since I've been nine.

I love pop, rock, r'n'b and hip-hop, everyone from The Beatles to Scissor Sisters, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Destiny's Child, Unwritten Law, Eminem.

Some of my best friends are amazing at music like Soph, who is able to pick up a violin and play any song without having even seen the music and give it her own style. Of course I love the band I play in!@!!!

What are your favourite foods, colours?
Foods: Well coming from a Hungarian background, yes I love my food. Favourites are olives, tomatoes, mangoes, cherries, sushi, and my mum's stuffed capsicum - that's the Hungarian in me again.

Colours: Black and pink. Black because it's good for everything. Pink because I just love the colour.

What do friends mean to you?
Everything! My best friends I consider to be my family and would always put them before myself and try to be there whenever they need me. I know I can always rely on them. My other friends I still consider important, but they're friends to have fun with.

Tory's friends

What are your favourite movies, albums and books?
Movies: Grease, is such a classic. Back to the Future, even though it is so unrealistic, I used to watch it with my brother Jamie over and over, so I think that's why I love it. I also really like Parenthood, it was really funny, Shrek, Eight Mile and lots of movies.

Albums: There are so many that I love, but my favourite ten that I could listen to over and over again would have to be (in no particular order) - Rubber Soul By The Beatles, The Eminem Show by Eminem, The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte, Under my Skin by Avril Lavigne, The Ultimate Collection by The Supremes, I'm not Dead by Pink, What's the story morning glory? by Oasis, The Singles 1992-2003 by No Doubt, Yourself or someone like you by Matchbox Twenty and From Here On by The Living End.

Books: I of course love my Mum's books (Susanne Gervay), because even though they are fiction, they feel close to home. My most favourite one of Mum's is The Cave.

Why did you write the songs for the book?
I wrote the music first and my mum, used it to drive That's Why I Wrote This Song. I've always written lyrics and music. It's something that's inside me.

What do you think of That's Why I Wrote This Song?
Love it!!!!!

That's Why I Wrote This Song The Cave