You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.