It just felt really strange to be in demand

I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.

When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.

When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

Don't be afraid of challenges. Let them take you somewhere new.

Everyone's got a different story.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

Mercia wasn’t a little-in-love sort of man. He was mad, dark passion, sweeping emotion, and complete loss of reason, with his gaunt male beauty, his wealth and power, and his haunted past.

Yours till submarines have screen doors.

Anyone who expects a person to change something as private and personal as who they hold in their arms at night needs to change their own judgmental attitude.

Often times if you're bored, the other person is probably bored too.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.

I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.