C. F. Lloyd Quotes

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

I need to not be scared of not having someone there to back me up. I just need to tackle things on my own. I feel like I have the power in me to make it work.

I've been incredibly lucky throughout the beginning stages of my career up 'til now, and so lucky to work with the incredible people I've worked with.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

I feel that my fans deserve to get something that's authentic and real.

There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.

I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're memorable.

Sometimes I just like to listen to unknown people, that can be really, really cool. I like going on blogs and stuff.

I like to YouTube a lot, and try and find unknown singers.

When you see the mega-stars doing really, really well, it gives you hope that you could probably do that too.

I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.

I'm alright with who I am and I don't feel that I need to be better.

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.

As a writer I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

My dads my best mate, and he always will be.

I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

I wouldn't want to change myself for the whole world

On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

Not badly, considering I was seated between Jesus Christ and Napoleon.

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head

If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.