I once got asked in an interview: 'Does it annoy you that the majority of your fans are teenage girls?' I was insulted and angry because it was sexist and ageist.

I formulate my style based on a range of influences from books to films and my moods.

There were so many weird shows when we were younger. 'Clangers.' 'Button Moon.' 'The Moomins.' All very weird, but very cool too.

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.

I can't even begin to grasp concepts like the multiverse.

When you're a woman, you have such a strange relationship with your body because - especially when you're in the public eye - you're constantly being judged.

I would say that I'm opinionated and clumsy and I am definitely led by my heart over my head.

When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. I was singing 'Independent Woman' and 'Survivor,' and it was all about Girl Power and being with your friends. I don't think I was singing, 'Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?'

I always wear red lipstick.

I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.