Katie Noonan: 'Motherhood has changed me'

Katie Noonan has revealed that she is a "different" person now to the beginning of her career.

The 33-year-old Australian singer, who is currently in jazz trio Elixir, said that marrying her bandmate Zac Hurren and giving birth to sons Dexter and Jonah has only boosted her creativity in the studio.

Noonan told Woman's Day magazine: "Obviously I am a very different person. When I made the first Elixir record, I was single and now I am married and a mother, so that is a pretty enormous, wonderful difference.

"This is my fifth record since I've had my children and my oldest is six, so parenthood has been incredibly fertile for me and my husband on the creative front."

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Noonan continued: "The thing about being a parent is it just crystallises your priorities, so when you do creative stuff you do it intensely and fit it into the time you have around your parenting. [Elixir offers] a reprieve from parenting practicalities. We can just be musicians together again, which kind of takes us back to where it all began for us as a couple."

Earlier this month, Noonan performed a 90-minute set in Brisbane alongside Hurren and Elixir guitarist Stephen Magnusson. She told the crowd during the performance that she was "much younger, single and not a mum" when she wrote their first track 'Tip of Memory'.

Watch Katie Noonan and Elixir's 'Snapshot' video below: