In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

You can't please all the people all the time.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I’m concerned, I’m changing all the time.

I’ve never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don’t feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn’t have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

I carry music in my head, so I don’t need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

And there’s no way I’m going to do Dame Edna.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn’t really. I didn’t use the beach very much at all.

I don’t necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

My roots are still in Britain, that’s where I live, that’s the place where I come from.