It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

If you spelled George Morgan wrong on Google it didn't say, "Did you mean George Morgan?" It simply replied, "Run while you still have the chance.

You don't change your style by changing your bag. You change it with your clothes.

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.