I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Drab?" Soldier yelled. "I'll give you drab. Beat her, would you? Beat my wife? I'll feed your head to the vultures, you snotty little hamster with your golden pelt and buttery looks!

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.

You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

Everyday I'm Hustlin'.