NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

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.

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

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.

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

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've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

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

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

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.

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

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

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

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.

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

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.

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

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.