Kate Ceberano has opened up about her incredible career in music and her relationship with drugs and alcohol in a new, revealing interview.

Appearing on the ABC series Creative Types with Virginia Trioli, Ceberano revealed that artists of a certain era were “paid in kind; that was people’s way of paying us” regarding drugs and alcohol.

During the conversation, Ceberano reflected on loved ones she knew who had passed away from drug and alcohol use, including fellow Australian Made singers and bandmates and musicians she knew in her pop era.

When Trioli asked why drugs and alcohol hadn’t significantly affected Ceberano in her life, she cited her youth (“I was often 18 years younger than all of my peers,” she said) and not wanting to be taken advantage of or seem stupid when coming up in the industry.

“I remember walking in backstage one time, and it was like Scarface,” she recalled. “There was, like, this mountain of white stuff, which I knew was something dangerous. First of all, I looked beyond the mountain.

“I looked at the person offering it, and I thought, ‘That person looks like a greedy wolf, licking his lips.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want to be the young edible.’ I am not Little Red Riding Hood. I said, ‘No, thank you.’”

You can watch the full interview on ABC iView and view a snippet below.

Last month, Ceberano announced a 22-date tour of Australia, which will span three months (June to August) and see her stop in venues across NSW, the ACT, Victoria, Queensland, WA, and the NT.

A tour of celebration, the tour title—Australian Made—refers to when Ceberano was just 20 years old and performed with I’m Talking on the original Australian Made tour of 1986/87, where she shared the stage with INXS, Jimmy Barnes, Models, and Divinyls.

The tour will see Ceberano dive into her expansive catalogue and the acts mentioned above, plus pay tribute to artists including Sia, Icehouse, Silverchair, John Farnham, Renée Geyer, Paul Kelly, and many more.

Ceberano said of the tour, “It’s so important for me to express my culture, my Australia, in song.

“This is a love letter to the artists, bands, audiences and storytellers who I’ve travelled with over this vast continent for four decades, a deep dive into what makes ME an Australian artist: my hungry heart holding their words to my chest, making them the soundtrack to my life.”

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