Article: sonic boom babe; Natalie Imbruglia's stunning voice and looks sell albums by the truckload. But, as she tells Louise Gannon, what really drives her is an obsession with perfection - down to the [pounds sterling]12,000 sound system she insists on.

Byline: LOUISE GANNON

Natalie Imbruglia is not the easiest of girls. She won't wear the clothes a stylist wants her to, she won't perform if she doesn't want to and she absolutely will not do anything she's not ready to do.

She turns so that those huge eyes trap me in their full bright-blue beam.

'Basically, I'm a pain in the neck,' she grins. 'But I don't care if people call me difficult. I'm just not the sort of girl you can push around.'

Natalie's looks helped her become famous as an actress, and with them she won a modelling contract with L'Oreal but in the serious business of making music there's no doubt in her mind: sound and ...

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