I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

I can't believe there's a website which counts down until I'm legal. It is quite sick and perverted when you think about it. These people must have a lot of time on their hands.

I love being in America.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

I wholeheartedly believe in the power and truths of love and kindness.

Find then follow the path that enables you to live the life you want to live. Don't be blow by the winds of fate. Don't be a creation of circumstances.

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.