I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.