When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

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.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.