I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I enjoy being a girl.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.