Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
I enjoy being a girl.
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
You cannot schedule death.
We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
We live in a society where everything's packaged.
I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
I just have an inability to lie.
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
