I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

I have spent my whole career worrying that the big bad pop monster was going to eat me when I wasn't looking.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

In many ways, 'Lords of Chaos' is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other movies. I approached my other films like I did my music videos or commercials, like jobs. But 'Lords of Chaos' I wrote myself, and it’s a close, personal story."

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.

For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.