But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

I can scare myself like a pro.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

The Gospel of glad tidings is the power of God.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Start living by taking back the control of your life now! Create a life more in tune with your true desires.

I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.