There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

A life without glitter is no life at all.

Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

I have really good instincts about friends.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

There are all kinds of things we can do in this world to make it a better place but we must start with ourselves.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.