But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.

If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem ... I'm so surprised that the emphasis on aging here is on physical decay, when aging brings such incredible freedom. Now what I want most is laughs. I don't want to hurt anybody by laughing -- there is no meanness to it. I just want to laugh.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.