Ever since the 1980s when she fronted the funk band I'm Talking, people have been talking about Kate Ceberano.
Now she's talking about herself.
Her tell-all autobiography, I'm Talking: My life, my words, my music, is a story full of twists and turns, family, singing, bands, highlights and struggles.
It takes readers on a journey from her rise to stardom at the age of 14 to the fast-paced life of an international performer.
Her husband, director Lee Rogers, said on Facebook recently that he's "not all that comfortable with parts" of Ceberano's book.
But the Bedroom Eyes singer says her partner of over two decades understands exactly why she wrote it and is "very supportive".
"When he says that, he's just saying what is true about all of life - it's not always comfortable but it does make for a very interesting career and it gives people an insight into what it takes to stay in the business," says Ceberano, 47, who released her 19th album Kensal Road last year.
The intimate memoir moves through Ceberano's suburban Melbourne childhood and covers the antics of her two brothers and the life of her father, who was born in Hawaii where his Filipino father had migrated to as a young man.
Early on she reveals how she lost her virginity in a nightmare Puberty Blues-style encounter in the back of a car. The experience ended with her throwing up Twisties all over herself on the way home after drinking too much rum.
"I wanted to show that I thought I was mature but clearly I wasn't," she says.
The singer also describes her experience of being a third-generation Scientologist, "steeped in the values of Scientology from childhood", and her friendship with Tom Cruise.
"The philosophy has been a very grounding and essential philosophy for me," she says.
"I've been able to look at my life and evolve out of old habits, improve certain aspects of life and sustain a certain energy in life, which I definitely get out of that.
"A lot of my friends get that energy from other things too, which are equally as positive.
"It's essential for a contemporary life today to have something you believe in."
She also details the insecurity she felt as a young performer mixing with the likes of INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, who was 10 years her senior.
In the 1986 Countdown awards Ceberano won most popular female performer and Hutchence won most popular male artist.
"I was often overwhelmed being around INXS and the industry.
"I felt there was a lot that I wasn't going to be able to live up to.
"I used to get very nervous and shy and would end up saying the most stupid things."
In her book she recounts a time when a journalist asked her what impressed her about Sydney. Ceberano replied: "the fellatio there" and was quickly corrected: "I think you mean the focaccias".
"In an effort to try to be cool you just end up making ridiculous errors," she says.
One of the most moving parts of her memoir is when Ceberano shares her mother's experience of giving up a son for adoption after she fell pregnant when she was a teenager.
It was not until 1989 that Ceberano found out she had a third brother - Bey, who lives in Hong Kong and is a producer of martial-arts films.
"The day Bey walked back into Mum's life was the greatest day of my life," she says.
Ceberano also charts the ups and downs of her relationship with Rogers and the highlight of their lives - the birth of their daughter Gypsy.
She says Gypsy, now 10, will be allowed to read her memoir, but not until she's older.
"I would want her to read about her family's life but I would also want to have had the opportunity to explain to her that there were many things that I did that I'd rather have not done.
"Maybe it might be a journal, a way for her to navigate her way into life without having to do the same things as I did."
*I'm Talking: My life, my words, my music, by Kate Ceberano with Tom Gilling, Hachette, $32.99.
