You know the first objective is to get out of your hometown, second objective, get it together in the capital. The awful thing about left the school, is that you'd feel you'd be important. It would matter what you did.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

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.

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I like my work, but my life always comes first. I always wanted to have a beautiful life, and the way to do it is in show business.