Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.

I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.