I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.

I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.

The public are not stupid.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.