Natalie Imbruglia

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

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

Why can you only do one thing in life? Who says there's a rule?

When you're still based in different countries, you can't start a family whilst that's going on.

When I'm doing those ads, it's nothing to do with me and I don't have to be so controlling about every aspect of it.

There were scripts being thrown at me when Torn was huge everywhere. But I couldn't emotionally handle the workload. I would have cracked.

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.

The new album is very positive and has a cheery feel to it, you can hear my contentment in the music.

The modeling doesn't take that many days up during the year, and I feel happy doing it.

Nicole Richie is supposed to be way too thin. It's more likely she's gone that way as a reaction to being called too chubby in the past. It's her only way of controlling the situation she's in. I completely understand that.

My mum said, I said I wanted to be a hairdresser through the week and a star on the weekends.

My husband just said, I'm going to write a song for you, and went off and did it all in a day, I couldn't believe it. It's called Satisfied.

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.

It's like a kettle boiling, so not something I'm proud of, but I think that's the Italian in me.

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

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick in Sydney. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

It should not be happening, that women cannot safely have a child in this day and age. If you could help just one of these women, it is literally giving that woman her life back. Nobody wants to talk about being incontinent. These women are suffering in silence. You can see it in their faces.

If that's the first record you've made and you get all this attention, you just assume that's always going to be like that.

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've always known my destiny was to be a performer. I've been on stage my whole life, in some capacity.

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

I'm quite confident with the way that I look.

I'm just slow. That's the thing that I worry that people think. It's something that really bugs me.

I'm aware of the risk of spreading myself too thin.

I'm a perfectionist.

I'd gotten quite good at auditioning. That's when you start getting jobs.

I'd enjoy doing an action film based purely on how much fun it was to do fight scenes.

I'd been on many film sets when I was younger, as an extra, so I knew the differences between film and television just from observing. I was surprised at how much fun it was. I loved it.

I'd become quite superficial. I was going through a hard time. I don't want to sound like poor me because it was a really good thing to go through.

I would like to start a family, yes, I can really see that. I can see myself giving it all up and settling down properly, at least I say that now.