I think we'll say flat is the new growth in the short term.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.