Shania Twain

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.