I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good.

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

Yeah when you're in the middle of filming this movie [Bad Santa 2] it doesn't matter what you say you can think of some sort of way to twist it into something dirty so we were laughing a lot.

Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from 'Mad Men' and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Experience everything.

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is". I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.