I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so.