I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Love is such a deep gratitude. When you are truly in love with life, every breath you take is gratitude.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

England is safe, if true within itself.