I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

It's always a good idea to get yourself a famous, rich, and groovy young man. That's one of the best-known methods of furthering your career.