Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

I am a perfectionist.

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

True love will never fade like a rainbow.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

A man who marries at my age isn't taking a wife, he's indenturing a nurse.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing