Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

Patience is the food of understanding.

Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.

The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours

Show me good, i show you better, show me bad, i show you worse...

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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

I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.

The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.