You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

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

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

I'm a perfectionist.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

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

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

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

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.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

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

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I worry unnecessarily.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.

I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.

Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.

We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

Frankly, I don't like publicity.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.