You`re either too fat or too thin. You just can`t win.

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.

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

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`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.

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`m a perfectionist.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

"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."