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I started dancing when I was 3, Scottish dancing. All my childhood memories were dancing like six days a week. I remember begging my mum to do ballet dancing because I did jazz and tap and then I wanted to start ballet.
I used to do performances at shopping centres and things, and that's hardly cool.
I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.
The new album is very positive and has a cheery feel to it, you can hear my contentment in the music.
The modeling doesn't take that many days up during the year, and I feel happy doing it.
I don't intend to carry a film for a long term.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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 was really financially getting to a situation where it was really tough and the money for the advance of that record deal paid for my flight out of the country. My visa was running out.
I think if you're writing with a broken heart you'll write a certain type of song, but I don't think that it's better.
It should not be happening, that women cannot safely have a child in this day and age. If you could help just one of these women, it is literally giving that woman her life back. Nobody wants to talk about being incontinent. These women are suffering in silence. You can see it in their faces.
Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
I would like to start a family, yes, I can really see that. I can see myself giving it all up and settling down properly, at least I say that now.
I'd gotten quite good at auditioning. That's when you start getting jobs.
I think a lot of people just wanted to be friends with me because I was on Neighbours and maybe didn't have the best intentions.
My mum said, I said I wanted to be a hairdresser through the week and a star on the weekends.
I speak with my hands and then when I get upset, I tend to raise my voice and Italians do that a lot.
I'm aware of the risk of spreading myself too thin.
I really wanted a record deal but I was really nervous that because I'd been on Neighbours people would joke all the time.
If that's the first record you've made and you get all this attention, you just assume that's always going to be like that.
Getting married had a big effect on my work. Being emotionally stable and really happy in my personal life freed me up.
I isolated myself. I decided I'm not allowed to see any of my friends until I make this amazing record. There was an element of torturing myself.
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 realised I had to really think about the singing thing again, which was very scary, and I started song writing.
I have body issues-that's my thing.
There were scripts being thrown at me when Torn was huge everywhere. But I couldn't emotionally handle the workload. I would have cracked.
I couldn't be funny just off the cuff. I don't have the creativity.
I'd been on many film sets when I was younger, as an extra, so I knew the differences between film and television just from observing. I was surprised at how much fun it was. I loved it.
I remember having anxiety because I got the record deal, but I had to hold it together.
Everyone was like oh, this is fantastic, you've got a record deal and I was like, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this.
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
My husband just said, I'm going to write a song for you, and went off and did it all in a day, I couldn't believe it. It's called Satisfied.
I had to walk back and forward in a bikini. I just refuse to do anything remotely like that anymore cause it was quite traumatic.
I love singing and I didn't want to waste the opportunity. That's all I could really do, just keep trying. That's all you can really ask of yourself.
Why can you only do one thing in life? Who says there's a rule?
I wasn't paying any attention to what was being played on the radio. I try to make pop music I like.
I'm just slow. That's the thing that I worry that people think. It's something that really bugs me.
I didn't do anything for a year, just went out partying.
You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
When I'm doing those ads, it's nothing to do with me and I don't have to be so controlling about every aspect of it.
I just feel more comfortable with more clothes on.
I was in the safety of mum and dad's home. I was like oh gosh, I've bluffed it, now I've got to actually do it.
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
Being happy inside makes the work of putting an album together much easier.
I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.
Everyone expects a lot from me now. How am I going to ever follow this?
I'd enjoy doing an action film based purely on how much fun it was to do fight scenes.
I've always known my destiny was to be a performer. I've been on stage my whole life, in some capacity.
It's like a kettle boiling, so not something I'm proud of, but I think that's the Italian in me.
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
Nicole Richie is supposed to be way too thin. It's more likely she's gone that way as a reaction to being called too chubby in the past. It's her only way of controlling the situation she's in. I completely understand that.
I'd become quite superficial. I was going through a hard time. I don't want to sound like poor me because it was a really good thing to go through.
I was really nervous when I started, but everybody was really supportive and understanding of the fact that I hadn't acted for a long time.
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.
I'm quite confident with the way that I look.
When you're still based in different countries, you can't start a family whilst that's going on.
I actually got told off a few times for giggling during a take. It was hard, very hard, but fun too.
I didn't want to confront my situation so I just went out a lot.
I definitely try and combat the superficial industry that I'm in.
I'm a perfectionist.
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