You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.