When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.