I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.

As a kid, I always thought the TV was a magic box in the corner of the room.

I'm a complete worrier. As soon as my head hits the pillow I'm thinking.

I wonder how two imperfect people can create perfect love.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

There is no success or failure in Nature.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

Faith is power to believe and power to see.