An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.