All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

I always knew I had this voice, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I realized I had the power to do something with it.

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

I feel an enormous responsibility to bridge the gap between England and America, and be a sort of very quiet ambassador for my country to try to sort of do a "hands across the water" thing where they understand England and English people understand Americans. I adore America.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.