Natalie Imbruglia

I worry unnecessarily.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

I'm a perfectionist.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.