You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.

I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life

I have never been unfaithful to a partner and would find it immoral to be involved with a married man.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.