You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

I can tell women's confidence levels rise when they wear heels.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

If you don't change, you will become extinct.