And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I think work really is a life saver, because it carries you forward, which is good.

Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I live quite an unsettled life.

You can build a business, or you can run it, but there’s only two ways it can be run, you can run it straight, or you can run it into the ground.

You can elevate yourself to a level of higher consciousness simply by changing your thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them… but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.

The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from?

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?