I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

I only move forwards, never backwards, darling.

I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.