I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I put myself under immense pressure.

I tend to write more when I travel.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

But it's this one boy, hanging over a barre, sharing his history, who ended up here with me, in this moment, by pure fate. I wonder what it would be like to kiss him.

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident.

You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.