We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.