I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.

On the stage you alone hold the key and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Every three days on average I am alone on stage facing the public.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up who can you blame?

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

On stage I make love to 25 000 different people then I go home alone.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Growing up on stage I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.