I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.

For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58.