Quotes

In 1999 my father died and my mother was coming to live with me. So I left my Kennington flat and bought a house with a garden because my mother loved watching the birds.

My father was in the admiralty and he rose to a very senior position. He was very formidable; a bit grumpy, but I loved him dearly.

I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love it. And being a song interpreter, to me, is just as important as, you know, putting your own thing out there. It's all about the soul - where the soul comes from.

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

It's one thing to look at someone like Beyonce and Rihanna and to see how beloved and talented they are, and it's another thing to live inside it.

Romantic love is just one aspect of love.

When 'Quadrophenia' came out, I turned on to that because of the whole story with it, and there were just some really amazing songs on there. 'Love Reign' being the quintessential song on that record, I think. That was always one of the cornerstones of my temple, that song.

I just love my privacy.

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.

The list of movies that 'Captain Marvel' is a love letter to is very expansive and strange.

We love telling stories about characters who you root for, even though they sometimes make it really hard for you to root for them and the choices they make.

The Gambler' is one of the movies that inspired us. We love that movie.

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.