However, Moyet's recent tour with her and Vince Clarke's band, Yaz, set a precedent for her North American solo jaunt, which kicks off Oct. 5 in Toronto, Ontario. (See below for details.) Ticket sales were rabid for the short trip.

"It was incredible, actually," Moyet said about the tour by Yaz, which is called Yazoo overseas. "It feels like I've been touring all year this year. But it's been such a long time since I've managed to get out there that it's quite a big deal for me."

This tour marks Moyet's first trip back to this side of the pond as a solo artist in 14 years. On the road in support of her latest album, "The Turn," Moyet would have come to North America plenty of times, but visa problems and other issues got in the way. The timing for this trip is good, she said.

"I think, obviously, the Yazoo routing has raised promoter confidence, and that's what you need," she said. "From my perspective, I would have come a million times; it's been really difficult to put it together."

"The Turn" features a mix of self-penned songs, including the three numbers she wrote for the stage play "Smaller." She said that, although three songs were written for the stage, she stuck to her tried and true way of penning tunes.

"The songs were written in very much the same way," Moyet said. "The only difference is the voice you're using is not your own. You're putting yourself onto another character as opposed to it being autobiographical, which a lot of my writing tends to be."

Moyet explained that she does not find it difficult to share autobiographical stories with her audience. The more obscure the lyric, the more likely it is to be autobiographical.

"Sometimes there are certain songs that I've sung in my youth that I find to be kind of gauche and a lot of people--because there's that typical moaning and wailing on it--assume it's really heartfelt. That always amuses me, because they tend to be the least heartfelt.

"What interests me in songwriting as an adult, as opposed to when you start off when you're a kid, are the adult issues. I can't write with the innocence of a 16-year-old. You have a harder face as you get older. You're dealing more with ennui and acceptance, but a jagged acceptance as opposed to something asinine. You hide far more as an adult, I think, than you do as a child within your personal relationships. As such, I want to use a language sometimes that's kind of terser."

In concert, Moyet will perform a retrospective of her catalog with her band, which includes a guitarist, bassist, pianist, drummer and violinist. In England, she said, she's much less likely to play a cross-section of her career, so those tours tend to focus on her most recent album. However, with North America, it's different.

"The fact that it's been such a long time and I have fans that haven't had a dose of it in forever, it feels more important to add some of the back catalog," Moyet said. "I've been more of an 'albums' artist than a 'singles' artist. In that aspect, the album tracks are as important as the singles were.

"More often than not, I think there are a lot of album tracks that are stronger than single tracks anyway. The singles tend to be the songs that are chosen by record companies because they think they can get it on radio or market it. More often than not on the album, there are other songs that I think are much more potent."

For Moyet, one of those songs is "The Man in the Wings," a song she was inspired to write on the way home from the theater.

"When I'm singing, I tend to focus on any one person," she said. "It could be anyone, anytime. Usually, it's someone I'll never know. I'll never meet. I like to imagine there's this intimate connection between me and he or me and she, whatever, that is this moment we share together. Once it's gone, it's gone. We move on from it. For one moment in time, we're completely connected. It's kind of about that. It's about how you share a romance with a complete stranger that would never involve a physicality."