I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.