Originally I considered myself a singer.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.