I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.

Love awakens the divine-spirit of soul.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.