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

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

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.

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

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.

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

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.