Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that's when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.