I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

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.

If hearts could shatter, mine just did.

I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

What-ifs are for fools

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.