Vanessa Mae

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.