Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.

I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life.

The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…

Addiction by any other name is love.

I’m going crazy, Louis thought wonderingly. Wheeeeee!

Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.

He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.