A princely mind will undo a private family.

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you have a bad day, and it's going on the Internet.

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

My grandad used to work in the mines, he's retired now, but he's been a big part of my career.

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

What I miss is being close to nature - collecting your own water and generating your own electricity, catching your own food. I still dream of doing that with my own family, even if it's just for a...

'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.

I didn't really feel like a girly girl. I didn't want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then when punk came along it was like, 'Oh great, I can wear ripped jeans and manky...

It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.

I'm not going to walk around at 28 stone until I'm 48. My plan is to win the World's Strongest Man, walk away gracefully, and live a long life.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for...

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.

It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still...

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a...