"People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."

"My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute."

"I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it."

"I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy."

"It is a humble truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"Wisdom principle 39 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 94."

"Wisdom principle 17 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 52."

"It is a subtle truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove."