No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.