You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

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.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

The quest for knowledge and wisdom is true connection to divinity.

We came to life to leave a mark, either a wrong or right! So what route is your lifestyle taking?

The worst mistakes of your past can be the best lights of your future!

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play!

I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70

You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going.