The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it - and in breaking it, you have broken mine ... I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

My personal style is ever changing.

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.