You better believe my passions were music. Music was one, two, three, four, five, six and seven. But I was also sporty. I love sport. I was doing a lot of athletics – 100 metres, 200 metres, long jump. All the things that taller people should do. Although we didn’t play football, because back then whoever heard of girls playing football? But music and theatrical performance were absolutely everything for me.
The whole school knew I was this mental Prince fan. We did a student exchange about that age when I went to Lake Oswego High School in Portland, Oregon. A bunch of us were there for almost a month and then those kids came to us. I carried my Walkman with my cassette of Prince’s album, which had just been released. That was all I could listen to. Everybody else was listening to Bros but I was Prince, Prince, Prince. But I also loved Whitney,
