Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

I didn't have a childhood, really, because I worked my whole life and... other reasons. So when I had some success, I went ballistic. That was my childhood, and the party kept going on.

I'm not a person that sets a long-term goal. My goals are on an everyday basis.

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes. But the urge to write is something you have to have. A conviction, an ambition to write and never stop until you think, 'This is the best I can do.'

I tell myself things will be different in a few years' time, but this is the most wonderful, golden time for me. I'm basking in the success of 'Tango', really loving it.