I can't act without music very well.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.