I can scare myself like a pro.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

There is no limit to what you can achieve, if you believe you can.

Good taste is death vulgarity is life.

The problem with common sense is, it isn't.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.