Judith Durham

“My object is to make people happy with our music.”

“Generosity of spirit is worthwhile. I've had many requests over the years to attend things, to sing somewhere. I try not to turn things down if I don't have to. The easiest thing is to say you can't manage it, but often it's more rewarding to agree to do something for someone.”

“I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.”

“My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.”

“I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.”

“No longer do I have these terrible complexes I had when I was younger, and I am able to enjoy what life's offering me.”

“Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith Durham Look!”

“I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I'd have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.”

“As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.”

“I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.”

“You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.”

“It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!”

“We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.”

“I do marvel at what life puts in your path. It's always the unexpected. But I am lucky to be surrounded by very positive people and during my rehabilitation from the haemorrhage that helped very much.”

“Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said 'You're so fresh-faced and wholesome.'”

“Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.”

“I get quite a few proposals on my website. That's very nice. I'm thrilled about that side of life.”

“Once upon a time I did eat meat.”

“When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.”

“I've never used an app.”