If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.