I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

What you see is highly dependent on how you look.

99 percent people are searching future without deciding what they want? &1 percent are thinking why they did not do this.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

The fate of our country is now in the hands of people who don't think about what they want until they get right up to the register at McDonald's.