It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.