From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

Whoever said blondes have more fun hasn't met me.

I love seeing my husband having success.

This story is dedicated to all those who help, and all those who care.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

Because music gets you high, so it makes sense to sing about what else gets you high.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.