I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl

I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

Sometimes integrity is a punch in the face.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.