No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Fashion goes round in circles.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

God's grace is the gift of salvation.

Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

Her dark eyes slid to him. "I can't remember the last time I felt so good in clothes."And he wanted to get her out of them.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

Some roles have been with me forever

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

Depressions aren't good but the depression mentality is good.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.