Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

I am the sun... And the air...

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.

I just try and focus on having fun on the road and making the best music I can.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.