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

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 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.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

We are perfect and it's just for us to acknowledge this aspect of us, be conscious in our thoughts and use mind power to bring forth the betterment of the nation.

To hope is to send darkest night into exile.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.