The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

The only death I fear is the one I fell when we're apart.

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

Life itself is a quotation.

Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.