It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

My first job was singing at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was years ago, so I can't remember who I was performing with. I was a sort of anti-climax after two hours of heavy rock-'n'-roll. Seventeen years old in a white dress. It was the first time that I got applause. Wonderful, that noise in my ears.

If you analyze the bad times you find that it's because you wanted to have a bad time.

When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.