Sophie Daniels is a songwriter and an associate professor of songwriting at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, where she founded the UK’s first higher education programmes in songwriting.

Sophie explains what makes an “almost perfect song”, including the importance of craft and reflecting human experience. She also says everyone can write songs, and the process is often thought of as being more complicated than it needs to be.

Sophie tells Remain Composed about the two EPs she's released under her artist name Liberty’s Mother. They're about baby loss and misogyny in the music industry.

Sophie says songs are vital to our shared sense of humanity, and AI-written music threatens that.