"When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said th..." — Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.