My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Oh my god, it's good to be alive!

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

History judged causes' greatness proportionally by how many individuals, themselves powerless to affect any outcomes of consequence, suffered and died in their service.

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.""Hun, " Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.

Forgive everyone everything.

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare.

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.