I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.