I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.