Once you play a superhero, is there any way back again? Once you're a superhero, it's just crazy.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

I can scare myself like a pro.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

But in New York, it’s different—even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.

Your Hands And Feet Gets Your MindTo Where It Wants To Be!

Life is a stampede to get to the top

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.