Be yourself, no matter what they say.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.