You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I thought people wouldn't take me seriously if too much acting was involved in the singing. But now I love the idea of mixing everything together.

I started so old, so the touring world will always be a foreign land for me. I'll never be someone who's "been on the road."

With a film you go with the script that's already written. And I've never thought of a project, a film that would come from my own desire. I don't think I can do it. I need someone else's desire to be able to do something. With a record, it is completely different, it's a collaboration with another artist, but I'm willing to go into intimate places with no masks on.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.