“I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.”

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!

If I don’t feel right about what I’m in, I don’t feel right about anything.

It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.

At least I’m not playing other people for a change. It’s a very odd place to be… I feel I’m an actress who sings a bit.

Sometimes you work with somebody you’ve never heard of because you just feel like working.

The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn’t feel good.

I feel great identification with the developing world.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.