I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?

Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

...Incest is rape by extortion. Thus the child's very childhood becomes a weapon used to control her.

What's measured improves

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: "Death does not exist."

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.