"Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is."

"For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am."

"But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."

"What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights."

"I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people."

"My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die."

"I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone."

"I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time."

"I think quotes are very dangerous things."

"For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school."

"It's not important to me that people understand me."