Quotes from Kylie Minogue

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

I consider myself really lucky to be able to visit so many parts of the world, but after all of that, I love to come home. I appreciate my own space and the world I create for myself, my family and friends.

Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

I have always had a separate walk-in wardrobe, so I have the luxury of a fairly sparse bedroom.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.

I just can't help but see things differently.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.

I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.