Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines.
What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?
All writing is a process of elimination.
It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.
No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.
Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.
when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
I never had any desire to be famous. I find people who do really sad. I genuinely feel sorry for them because there is nothing of substancein their lives. I am happy when I am writing or performing. Not when I sit there being "famous". I like recognition for my work, but not recognition for being "that bloke off the telly". It is genuinely humbling when a woman comes up to me, as someone did recently, to say she wanted to commit suicide after her husband died, and my show cheered her up and made her feel better. That's great.
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.