I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I coudn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Jos

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Edgar A. Guest

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Jane Campion

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Robert A. Heinlein

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

Alvin Lee

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

Neneh Cherry