My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Look at Obama - he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He's trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.