"If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it."

"We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect."

"Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously."

"Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey."

"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

"I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive."