“I don’t really go to fashion parties; they’re not my scene.”

It is captivating, isn’t it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film.

Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It’s hard work, but really wonderful.

My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I’d be like, ‘Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!

I’m not the new anything; I’m just Agyness.

Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It’s an evolution – doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk.

I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.

I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. I was even talking yesterday about how, if I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I’m totally a grandma.

I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

When you’re young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, ‘This is totally the truth’, ‘cos you don’t know any difference, so there’s a real confidence in your way of thinking.

I’d like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

I think that you can’t fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That’s my focus.

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

You know, even though I’m in fashion, I don’t, like, do fashion. Fashion isn’t me, even though I work in it. It’s just materialistic stuff.

You can never become that thing, because it’s such a projection.

I’ve never had formal drama-school training; I’ve just picked things up as I’ve gone along.

And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up.

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.