I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.

An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.