I thought that was normal. I thought you were born knowing what you wanted to do, … So I couldn’t understand any kids who were like, ‘Whoa, what am I going to do?’ I started...

You’re either too fat or too thin. You just can’t win.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

You’re only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles… like Audrey Hepburn.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don’t choose when these things happen, and when they do, there’s no doubt...

I’m a perfectionist.

I’m such a chameleon. I never get bored.

I’ve done a lot of partying in my time because I didn’t want to go home and I didn’t know what to do.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that...

It’s good to have to put yourself in someone else’s skin. It’s all-consuming.

It’s one of those things, you can’t escape it. You set your own boundaries and you say as much as you want to say and the rest you keep private — that’s the only thing...

It’s much easier to write when you’re sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Nicole Richie is supposed to be way too thin. It’s more likely she’s gone that way as a reaction to being called too chubby in the past. It’s her only way of controlling the situation...

How she smiles for the camera: When I’m on a photo shoot, I get my make-up artist to lift her top up and flash her boobs.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.