Samson co-wrote seven songs for the Pink Floyd album, The Division Bell, an album which went to number one in the US just two weeks after its release. It was a clever way of making her independently wealthy going into marriage with a multi-millionaire.
Although Samson had wanted to write, and during her lonely times in London wrote 30-page letters home, when she went to the Sunday Times, she was terrified. "I used to ring my mum from the newsroom: 'Do you mind if I just read you what I've written?' And other people, they'd be staring. 'Hello, Mum, I've just got 1,000 words.' I think it's the act reading to someone whose opinion you care about."