Sarah Blasko Thought Latest Album Would 'Kill Her'

Aussie songstress Sarah Blasko has admitted to feeling the pressure during the making of her latest album I Awake.

In a recent interview, Blasko had this to say when asked if she needs the rush of a sink or swim challenge, “Well I don't know if I thrive on it but some sort of sick and twisted part of myself needs it in order to move forward.”

In the liner notes of the album, the Sydneysider candidly stated “At times I thought this record would kill me… I felt I would sink beneath it.” Blasko is now relieved and slightly surprised that she came through with the goods.

“I feel relieved – relieved that I made the kind of beautiful record that I wanted to make and yeah, I mean I just feel proud as well that I got through it and I did it; I had this vision for what I wanted to do and then I followed it through. It's amazing to feel like you do that, that you somehow kind of blindly just go forward, something kind of drives you and afterwards you just think, 'Wow, I don't know how I found the drive to do that.' It feels kind of amazing to think that you even sort of halfway pulled it off.”

Read the full interview here.