What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.

Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

I'm more contented and at peace with myself now than I was as a box-office queen. I'm less uptight. I've even reached a stage where it doesn't shatter me if somebody prints something bad about me.

I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.