Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.