There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed.

Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

Sometimes God calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and He calms you

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

It is more important to be a good person than a good player.