It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I still look at myself and want to improve.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

I didn't want to do something typical.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.