In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.