I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

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.

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

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.

Pronaci cemo se.Onda kada i vreme zaboravi na nas.Pronaci ces me negde u sebi, tu gde se krijes iza laznih i prolaznih ociju.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.