In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

The power within us is immeasurable strength.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world. To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death.