I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.

Humility is pride in God.

Ford is leaving. You see that, their small car division leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio. They're all leaving. And we can't allow it to happen anymore.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.