Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

I think there's more room for different representations of women within fashion imagery.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.