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It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.

I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.

I'm such a geek now with princesses. It's pathetic.

Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.