When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.