I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.