TRACIE BENNETT

You need fear to create, to live.

When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.

Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies.

I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek.

You need fear to create, to live.

Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

When I was 2, I used to put pictures of the Manhattan skyline in a little scrapbook. And I used to wear American 'stars and stripe' vests and Daytona Beach stuff and they used to call me 'The Little Yankee.' Thank you to my producers for having faith in a little nobody from Lancashire.