To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

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

I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.

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