The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.