Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

You don’t exist in the past or in the future. You only exist in the present moment.

Why was love such an addictive drug?Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Cherish the questions, for the answers keep changing.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.