Mimicking people was something I did already.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

The blessings that come out of pain will forever be greater than the pain is even as you have passed through it.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action.