The success that I’ve had in Australia has surpassed anywhere else that I’ve been to, and because I’ve had such a long break this time, the support [here] is still very strong so I just thought it was a good place to go back to. Fingers crossed, people would still remember me! (Laughs)

The first few times that people had said that I was a diva, I was kind of taken aback because I always think of a diva as some giant black woman belting a track out! I take it as a compliment and I suppose I’m quite a ballsy person anyway – I don’t think I would have lasted as long as I have if I hadn’t been. So when people call me a diva, I don’t take it as a ‘complete bitch’, I take it as I’m a strong woman.

Disgusting. Bah! Unbelievably annoying. I never, ever mime. There’s no way in a million years I would ever mime – I think it’s a con. If people are paying good money to come see you in a concert, it’s really taking the mickey to stand up there and to mime to something. And not only that, surely the whole idea of it is that you can sing!

When we first worked together on Mysterious Times, we worked together really well and we got on really well. But when it came to the second track, I don’t know whether the fame thing had gone to his head, but he was really arse-y - he wasn’t the same person I’d worked with before. He was quite nasty to me. When we did the first track and it was such a success – and I worked my butt off for that track, every day for four months - he said because of what I’d given him with the first one, he’d promised me that we’d do a second one – so at least he kept his word.

Yeah, it does. That was the time that I was a teenager. The eighties were a wonderful time because everything was so different, the style and everything from the clothes, the makeup and everything that people wore was so in-your-face. I’m really pleased with the reaction [Wonderful Life] is getting – I’m over the moon. There’s whispery, whispery bits that I’m going to be coming and doing a tour in July, so fingers crossed...!