My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

I don't talk about my private life.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

All I have to do is what's right for me.

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.

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 don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.