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

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

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

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

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

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.