When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.