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I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.
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I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
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I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.
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I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
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I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
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Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.
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The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
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I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
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I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.
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I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.
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I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
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All I have to do is what's right for me.
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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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My happiness is very fragile.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
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Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.
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I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.
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I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.
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I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.