JUDITH DURHAM

I've never used an app.

My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith Durham Look!

I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.

When i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat. I was very critical of myself, and then I met and got to know and understand my husband. He helped me turn myself around. He had such a positive attitude towards life.

I'm moved by what I hear about the power of music.

No longer do I have these terrible complexes I had when I was younger, and I am able to enjoy what life's offering me.

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.

If you join a choir, it's a wonderful outlet.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

The sound of the Seekers, that four-part harmony sound, three boys and a girl, is so unlikely, you would not choose those four voices to blend together.

I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange.

I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.

I always felt I was going to be famous.

I lost the power to write and I had to sort of relearn how to read and write to a certain extent and speak fluently.

It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.

Generosity of spirit is worthwhile. I've had many requests over the years to attend things, to sing somewhere. I try not to turn things down if I don't have to. The easiest thing is to say you can't manage it, but often it's more rewarding to agree to do something for someone.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

Death is just a continuation of life.