“A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.”

“Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.”

“I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.”

“I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.”

“I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.”

“I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.”

“I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.”

“I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.”

“I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.”

“I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.”

“I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.”

“If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.”

“I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.”

“I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.”

“I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.”

“I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.”

“My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.”

“Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.”

“The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.”

“There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.”

“This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.”

“When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence.”

“When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.”

“With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.”

“You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.”

“You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.”