It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.