“I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that’s where I go.”

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I’m taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

My mum came from nothing and didn’t have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

I like sparkles; I think I’m a magpie.

The freedom that money gives you makes you… well, I wouldn’t say happy, but I’d say it gives you diversity.

I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

I don’t overthink when I’m styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.

I feel curious about every situation I’m in.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it’s about other people.

I lend people money, but I’d never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn’t get it back.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

I vote Labour and can’t begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I’m surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don’t have any problem telling me I’m acting like an idiot or I’m not that funny.

I’ve spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

I try not to brand myself ‘weird’ any more because it sticks.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema.

It’s part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

I love awards, especially if I get them. It’s up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You’re either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.