Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

O Lord, grant my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita, the spirit of prayer and the grace to read thy word.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Never give up on anybody.

Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!

It ain't the end of the world, you know. Just the end of what you knew.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.