You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

Friendship...is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.