Even to survive and have everyone in good health now is really precious. Bands half our age don't even get that lucky sometimes. It's good to practice gratitude, as they say. I used to be so ungracious, I wasn't even aware that I should be feeling grateful! Now I actually try and put it into my daily thought: Be grateful. It's not always so easy.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I'm 41, I'm a woman, not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.

Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. I know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.