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Music is nourishment.
I've never used an app.
Once upon a time I did eat meat.
Death is just a continuation of life.
I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.
If you join a choir, it's a wonderful outlet.
My object is to make people happy with our music.
I'm moved by what I hear about the power of music.
I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.
We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.
I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.
Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.
I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.
Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.
You can't under-estimate the power of uplifting melody and words.
The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.
I'm very protective of the image of the Seekers after all these years.
If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.
Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.
It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.
As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.
When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.
I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.
It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.
We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.
I get quite a few proposals on my website. That's very nice. I'm thrilled about that side of life.
My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.
It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!
The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'
Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.
I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.
In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.
I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.
I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.
It could potentially affect my singing if I wasn't very disciplined about how I eat before I go on stage.
It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.
I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.
I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.
I lost the power to write and I had to sort of relearn how to read and write to a certain extent and speak fluently.
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.
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.
We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.
Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said 'You're so fresh-faced and wholesome.'
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.
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
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 just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange.
We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.
It's a terrific responsibility trying to look right. There is so much to think about - clothes, makeup, hair. You have to look right for your fans.
The sound of the Seekers, that four-part harmony sound, three boys and a girl, is so unlikely, you would not choose those four voices to blend together.