I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.

In life, I have been a very lucky person; I have had a good married life, good friends, though I am not as educated as I would have liked to be.