I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.