Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

We stand or fall by television.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.

Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.