I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

I can scare myself like a pro.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

You can do no wrong in my eyes. You are perfect!Love u januaaa

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

Somebody tells me no, they're not going to keep telling me no, because I'm going to bother them to the point where it's a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.