My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

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.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

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