A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

I'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

Family things are always tough, and they're always tough to address, let alone on a TV show.

I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.