I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

I'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.