Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

Obviously music is my first job.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.