I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called.

The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.

I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

I love Australia - I think.