No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

My professional persona never loosens its grip, keeping an eye on me at all times.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.