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• ‟ I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

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• ‟ I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.

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• ‟ I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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• ‟ I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

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• ‟ I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

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• ‟ Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

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• ‟ I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

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• ‟ The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

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• ‟ I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

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• ‟ France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

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• ‟ I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

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• ‟ When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

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• ‟ For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

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