I'm a tomboy. I ride motorcycles, I play polo. I was on a paintball team when I was younger. Endlessly.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.

Naughtiness is a diamond of childhood.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.