Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out.

I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.

What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.