The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.

The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear