I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.