I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.

I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.

“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.

You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness.

It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

When I say “when you’re always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly,” I mean that you don’t always take care of yourself.

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

The mere imparting of information is not education.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.