Quotes from Judith Durham

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.

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.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.

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.

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

My object is to make people happy with our music.

A lot of my philosophies came from sheet music. 'Some Day My Prince Will Come,' or 'Blue Skies Smiling at Me' - they were very uplifting, wholesome lyrics, and I really believed those words when I sang them.

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.

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.