Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

The unknown is always frightening.

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.