I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.