I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.

Dancing With The Stars' is a little family. The cast, we're all together - we're a really friendly competition.

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.

I am definitely the queen. I definitely see myself as the queen.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.

I've always been an entertainer all my life; I come from a family of entertainers. I always made, very pretentiously, a comparison with Agatha Christie. Her inspiration was crime, and I'm sure she must have taken courses or read about crime, because it was the basis of her stories. But ultimately, it was her own fantasy.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.