Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The moment of existence is miraculous.

Two is always better than one.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

it's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously. You get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.