I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we. " This is the sorcery of literature.
I never ask anyone for anything. I've just not been brought up like that.
I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.
When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.
All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.
I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.
I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.