Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams.

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.

I am willing to do whatever is necessary to succeed.