"I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era."

"When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place."

"Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about."

"Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too."

"Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest."

"There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa."