To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

It's all about where you're going, no matter where you've been.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Now is the time to commit to your "SELF" that there will be no playing small. You have gifts to give unto the world - and a difference to make.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

PR is performance recognition

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.