“But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.”

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I’ll just record it there and then.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn’t work out that way if someone else records it

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

I’ve never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we’ve delved into.

I’m very much a family person.

When you are in your 20’s and 30’s, you just want a hit record and you don’t really care how it happens

As long as you’re having fun, that’s the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it’s over.

I’m Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

I will always have my songs and I don’t think I will ever dry-up

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man: no time to talk.