I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing.

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.