I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.

I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.

All men love to talk about themselves, even the ones who are completely buggers.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.