There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of their marriage. They are two people who should never, ever have got married.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.