I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

Anything can happen with a razor.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I knew or would meet. I just wrote urgently - naïvely, I suppose, looking back.

Women have very powerful second chakras, and the goal is to move that energy up and use it.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to tell.

I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.