We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.

If I should die think only this of me that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights.

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.