"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."

"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life."

"As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it."

"Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."