I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I worry unnecessarily.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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'm a perfectionist.

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

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

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

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

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

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

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

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

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

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 a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.