I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

There's always challenges to everything.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.