I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.