Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.