In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.

Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you hear a director yelling on set, everybody scatters in the other direction.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.