May the eyes of cowards never sleep
I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
The big issue is whether Ukraine is successful as a country. Democracy. Market economy. Prosperity. Security. And so on. And whether we can resolve this conflict, which I think is an important step in restoring sovereignty, restoring territorial integrity in Europe, getting beyond the impasse that we have with Russia now, that's where we would like to go.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.