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

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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.

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

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.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.