I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

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

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

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.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.