I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.
Judith Durham
In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.
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.
I've never used an app.
I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.
I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.
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.
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.
Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.
When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.
I always felt I was going to be famous.
I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.
I'm very protective of the image of the Seekers after all these years.
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.
The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.
Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.
We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.
My object is to make people happy with our music.
I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.
The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.
It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.
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.
We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.
Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said 'You're so fresh-faced and wholesome.'
As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.
I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.
I am quite healthy and very careful about my diet. I take a vitamin B complex, a vitamin C supplement, iron and hemp oil - which is a good source of omega 3 - every day. I don't eat meat, fish or eggs, or anything that's too starchy.
I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.
It's important to keep music in your life in some way.
Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.
They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.
My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.
I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.
It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.
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.
It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.
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.
It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!
I'm moved by what I hear about the power of music.
Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.
I get quite a few proposals on my website. That's very nice. I'm thrilled about that side of life.
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.
It could potentially affect my singing if I wasn't very disciplined about how I eat before I go on stage.
Once upon a time I did eat meat.
Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.
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!
One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the '90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that these songs we'd recorded should have somehow become timeless classics.
We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.
We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.
That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.
