Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.