I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.

In fact, I've only been to a couple of other people's dinner parties. But I must admit, I really enjoyed the few I've been to, but I'm not really on that circuit.

I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

I expect people to at least use some thought.