While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!" We had a lovely childhood.

I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could.

People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

If you get up every morning and smile, it's a good place to be.

I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media scrutinising everything you do.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.

So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!

All is change all yields its place and goes.

Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.