"I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good."

"I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence."

"Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people."

"I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."

"I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car."

"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."