Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.

When I go onstage, I kind of turn into a beast sometimes, this alter-ego, you know.

You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.