Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

People always like things that seem exotic.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

If you listen to everybody, you will be nobody.

Don't sit on the fence

Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.