“I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.”

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?

When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”

I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”

We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

A few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

I support love any healthy way you can get it.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

I just like food too much, and I don’t want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it … I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.

Even if you’re only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up’s on and their eyes are popping – just ask Amy Winehouse!

Well’ Francie decided, ‘I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life – and nothing else but’.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn’t here yet, whatever it’s going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That’s it.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.