Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

Rapturous and full bodied performance.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Decisive is definite.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

Love, come and get it, it's free.

I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.