When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists.

Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

The only way out is to go so far in.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.