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

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

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

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.

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Relationships have a nasty habit of reversing themselves; whatever has been done to you in a previous involvement you'll do to the next person you're involved with, if you get half a chance.