I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the ''f'' word.

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

Be yourself. No one else can.

I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Everything is because I love you.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I don't even want to go back to '81.

May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"

I define God as an energy. A spiritual energy. It has no denomination, it has no judgment, it has an energy that when we're connected to it we know why we're here and what we're here to do.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.