I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

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