Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.

Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.

When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

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.