My top lady advice is to make eye contact early on - before introductions, even - and just never break it, no matter what she does. Keep that dead-eyed lock on her. Works like a charm.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

She was a beautiful savage.

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.

I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

The life I love is making music with my friends.