So my manager at the time was, you know, it was first time I had a manager. I’d say “This is Terry and he’s looking after me”, I just didn’t know what was happening to me. but we flew to London. We were pretty much ignored for the best part of a week. Eventually Stocking Waterman, well, Pete, remembered that he’d agreed to have them write a song for me, so the story goes that they wrote it in 30 minutes or whatever. But as we know, Pete Waterman loves to exaggerate. Whatever it was I’m so thankful. I recorded the song and got on a plane and went back home and didn’t know what would become of that song.

Kylie Minogue via The One Show

I’ll backtrack it to being kind of ten and idolizing Olivia Newton-John, I wanted to be Olivia Newton-John or the blonde from ABBA, so, loving music from then, then when I did a couple of TV things at eleven, sixteen, and what little bit money from Henderson Kids, I used to go and have singing lessons and make a demo tape with three songs. […] It was a lot of luck, for sure, or destiny, I don’t know which, but somehow, I’d been dreaming of it prior to that. […] The lyrics are really kind of sad, as well. […] The lyrics are terrible, but sad.

—via 60 Minutes Australia