I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties.

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

A golden dragon. Splendid. My life expectancy has just become shorter than a gnome’s todger.

You're not my first. You don't deserve that category. Being first means others will come after you-that we will eventually end. And we don't. You're my last, because you never left.

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

People know who I am, but I'm feeling so lonely in the middle area, because I feel like I should be at the top.