I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I enjoy being a girl.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

Second place is just the first place loser.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Every experience is worth having.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.