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.

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

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.

Who told you that your journey is a thousand miles?

The greatest Comfort in life is Christ On the Move For Our Redemption Timelessly! HS (EL)

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.

Digital media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.