Quotes from Natalie Imbruglia

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

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

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

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

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

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.

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

I worry unnecessarily.

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.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.