"It was only cool to have blonde 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 realise that was a good 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.
I`m such a chameleon. I never get bored.
I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
It`s good to have to put yourself in someone else`s skin. It`s all-consuming.
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`m a perfectionist.
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 in your mind.
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.
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.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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 she`s in. I completely understand that.
You`re either too fat or too thin. You just can`t win.