My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

Don’t leave me, Em. You’re my salvation.

New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

How I learned to love the New World Order.

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.