DUFFY


Do you mind me asking, how does your family feel about your success? You’re one of the biggest selling British female artists of the decade…


Yea… What do they feel?


Are you still the daughter, are you still the sister, are you still the next door neighbour to them?


Yea… I’m still the daughter, still the sister and still the friend, but they always knew that this was going to happen. I think my determination was something that couldn’t be measured. I don’t know why I wanted to belong in music. I don’t know what pushed me forward; I still to this day don’t know what I’m looking for, but they knew I was going to succeed, or die trying. I think they just had to wait in the wings and see how fate would take me.


With the fame, are there up sides and down sides and can you give us some ex- amples?


The upsides have to be being a young woman and standing in a room of very important people and they listen to you. When you have any kind of success, you earn the right to have your say and I’ve wanted that for a very long time. It was very dif- ficult at 19 to convince people I knew what was best for me, so now I’m getting closer to that. If I think about the down sides of fame, I guess it’s the fact that nothing can be erased. The fact that whatever you do will stay around forever; from this interview to whatever you do in your private life. I’m very cau-


tious of that. I’m fully aware that it could always be something that I regret; when I look back when I’m 60 because of the age of the internet. I’d have to look back at myself coming out of a nightclub really drunk and half naked. That’s why I’m very cautious of doing those things. I try to keep my private life to myself, so that I can keep my vices to myself…If I’m going to go out and be young and wild. I just cant afford to do it because it will jeapordise what I stand by.


That’s what sets you apart from some of the people around who do that….


I am very much one of those sort of wild, young girls, I like to enjoy myself. When I get drunk I either laugh or cry. So I think back to the last few years how many moments I could have been seen with mascara on my face, pouring my heart out to friends about something over numerous bottles of wine and how lucky I have been that I made the right choices to do it in private.


You’ve had your first film role with ‘Patagonia’. You’ve been approached before about film roles but have wanted to focus on your music. Was it something you enjoyed doing, is it something you would like to do more?


I can’t quite explain the re- sponse I seem to get from the film world and it came as quite a surprise to me, its something that I never quite expected. That being said, my decision to do ‘Patagonia’ was not be- cause I wanted to explore my acting skills although equally


they were valuable for me. I wanted to go back and make a welsh movie that would belong to the welsh public and that they would cherish. It was slow moving and beautifully shot and romantic and charming. I was drawn more to the context of the piece rather than my introduction.


So if it was a story that did grab your interest, would that be something that was of in- terest to you going forward?


I think it has to be something that I feel passionate about and something that I feel drawn towards and that I feel would stand the test of time.


And finally… Any great plans for Christmas?


I have plans but whether I will see them through is another matter. I only know what I’m do- ing as far as the end of today in terms of the diary. I shall keep it open and hope that I can have lots of fun and raise a glass…


Will you see your family or will you be in some far off country?


I have no idea… maybe we’ll be skyping on Christmas day, although I certainly hope not!


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