When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

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.

I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently approved to begin my spaceflight training by the Russian space federation having passed the necessary medical and physical tests.