Toyah Willcox
Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.Collection: Age
My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.Collection: Business
You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.Collection: Friendship
At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.
I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.
My sleep pattern got disrupted around the time I was taking my O-levels, but in those days nobody really addressed things like that in children.
If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.
If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.
I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.
I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.
I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.
Live to live. Don't live to die. And never stop learning.
I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.
I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.
I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.
Acupuncture has made all the difference to my sleep.
Not sleeping is a problem when you get older. Not only is it linked to weight gain but the whole point of sleep is it allows your body to heal and replenish itself which is vital for good health.
I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.
I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.
You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.
I'd like young people to seek my advice, and trust that the decades I have lived through have added to my abilities to be a valuable contributor to the workplace and society.
I have experienced ageism and sexism. In my 20s, I was told by a camera lighting man I needed plastic surgery. In my 30s I was constantly told I needed to lose weight.
Women of all ages need to be present in the media to instill girls and young women with self-confidence about their futures. And women of my age need healthy role models. Otherwise, how can we build the future dreams we still deserve to have?
In my experience, women are conditioned to expect and accept that life will not only let them down, but they themselves will be the reason for their own downfall in the fullness of time.
One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!
I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.
I was offered a part in the stage version of 'Calendar Girls,' but the part is so predictable. It just makes me angry when I read the script.
I have a very powerful belief structure. I'm very spiritual. I'm not religious but I am spiritual.
I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.
This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.
We are all part of a vibrant, energetic life force and my overwhelming belief is that the mind survives outside of the body and it survives and works outside the body.
If I need a bit of RI&IR, I'd go to the Maldives because technology can't reach you.
I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm travelling for gigs.
I love being in the United States because I feel so energised there.
When punk started, it wasn't subtle.
I'd had a strict religious education.
New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.
I define myself by my work, so I'd be a sad creature without working. I just wouldn't get up in the morning.
I have a very strict lifestyle. It's a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.
I'm prudish.
My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a dance group of six girls.
I hated every minute of my schooldays.
Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.
I was very naughty, even as a baby.
Remember all those you work with. You never know when you will meet again.
As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola.
I was at stage school in Birmingham Rep when I was called down to London for an audition in the National Theatre. Maximilian Schell, the film actor, was casting Tales from the Vienna Woods. He was looking at me for a small, but significant, role.
My mother never slept.
My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands if we'd been naughty. And this was mainly to pull my brother into line. My brother is five years older and my sister's eight years older. He would use a little bamboo cane, which my brother saw most of.
I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.