I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

I don't like to overcook songs.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

If we still advise we shall never do.

Your ability to support your plans with a great strategy is the master skill for success.

I did not get to where I am backstabbing people. If you want what I have, you must earn it like I did.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.