I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

I can't believe there's a website which counts down until I'm legal. It is quite sick and perverted when you think about it. These people must have a lot of time on their hands.

I love being in America.

I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

The spirit of divinity lives in you.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.