Being a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

I am a perfectionist.

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. It’s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion

The Doctor...is embarrassingly human for an alien.

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.