I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

People need help, advice and love, not websites telling you how to lose your last pound, or scantily clad, deeply anorexic celebrities parading around flaunting their golden bones.

No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable... Thankfully, I proved people wrong.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

I love fresh flowers for my home. I spend far too much money on them, buying them almost every day.

Yeah, I fancy women big time... I check them out more than I check men out. Maybe I would want to sleep with a woman... Not Beyonce, although I like the look of her, I don't think she's that dirty.

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

Make no mistake, little human. You are under my protection now, and I protect what is mine.

Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.

But Hale wasn't just a member of her crew who had messed up. He was Hale. Her Hale. And Kat just wanted him back.

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.