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.
People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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.
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
I think quotes are very dangerous things.
I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.
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.