It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.