I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.

I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.