Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

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Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence

Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly. It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.