But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.