My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn’t right for me.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

Everybody keeps talking about whether they had a happy childhood or not. I can’t remember being unhappy. I think I probably was.

Every director is completely different.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn’t nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it’s not the totality of me.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life.

I like music to soothe me.

I believe academics think that if the child doesn’t go to university, they aren’t really a serious person and not worth paying the money for.

I find that I get very lost in certain things and that it is hard to let go. Often, certain characteristics stay with you from characters.

If you’ve looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That’s just the way it is.

In the ’50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

I was always a bit flighty, I suppose.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there’s a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

When I watched Ellen come out in ’97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done...

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven’t felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn’t work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.