Updated on Thursday, September 21, 2006, 00:00 IST

Washington, Sept 21: Pop singer Kylie Minogue feels that she has grown more focussed towards her life after a year-long break from showbusiness forced by her breast cancer battle.

The ‘I Can't Get You Out Of My Head’ singer had to take a sabbatical from the music industry for one year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2005, for which she had to undergo chemotherapy in Paris, the Capital of France.

And now that Minogue is back in business, she believes she has developed a new sense of purpose.

"It's difficult for me to articulate the way in which things have changed. "Before last year everything in my life was such a rush. I was travelling, I was touring, I was recording, I was going to meetings, always moving from one thing to the next,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

"Then I had a year when I was removed from that life, during which I went through this ordeal. I think that experience leaves you living in the moment, with a stronger sense of your own identity. "My friends have all noticed the change; they say I am clearer, more defined now," she said.

Bureau Report with ANI inputs