My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could.

People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

If you get up every morning and smile, it's a good place to be.

I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media scrutinising everything you do.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

Inner peace comes from the Creator.

I’m good at being vague and unpredictable. It’s sort of a hard habit to break.

When you do a negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to those who watch or get to know you. That is your brand.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun.

Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and ill, and nobody obeys it.

Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.