I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, "Oh fantastic, sun!" Then you take your shower, you say, "OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?" This should be fashion.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.