Singers From England

"The only, let's say, the comfort I took was — and even then, I kind of leant on it — was the fact that I knew that I was an actress and that I could play different roles because I was continuously being offered extraordinary stretches, shall we say, as an actress, to play parts which were way out of my range. However, I would do it. And I managed to just skin by by the skin of my teeth, you know, playing roles where I was much older than I actually was, playing Walter Pidgeon's wife in "If Winter Comes," you know?"

"I'd like to be remembered as somebody who entertained — who took one out of oneself — for a few minutes, a few hours — transported you into a different venue — gave you relief, gave you entertainment, and gave you joy and laughter, and tears — all those things. I would like to be remembered as somebody who was — capable of doing that."

"When I first started Murder, She Wrote, I thought it would last maybe two, three years, you know, or maybe a year if we were lucky. But when it extended and I realized the deep inroads it had made into family life in America, I couldn't stop. So I was sort of trapped — happily trapped — for 12 years with it. And I'm still playing Jessica from time to time and loving it. I wouldn't want to let go of that lady. … She was the sort of woman I like, and therefore, I enjoyed playing her. And being Jessica was second nature to me because she embodied all of the qualities that I like about women. She was valiant and liberal and athletic and exciting and sexy and all kinds of good stuff that women are of a certain age and are not given credit for. So to be able to play that gave me tremendous sort of pleasure, and I'm so glad I've done it."

"Love is all we leave when we are gone live on In every heart of those we touch In every dream that means so much Yes I believe that all of us live on."

"I’m waking up this morning Grateful for the gift of one more day The light of hope is dawning It fills my heart and lifts my fears away Sometimes there’s a miracle just beyond the pain When you can see the rainbow in the rainLive on, live on Brighter skies will come again Cry the tears you cry and then live on, live on Love is all we leave when we are gone Live on."

"No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost."

"I'd hate to be a man. I feel sorry for them, being so career driven. In the music industry there's so many of them, whereas as a woman you can make waves."

"I cry when I say things I really believe in. I cry at board meetings and the men at the table get quite taken aback, I have to ask them to take no notice."

"Basically, as a child, just like you do with any adult – and at that age, too – I don’t think I really questioned anything. I just felt that they knew what they were doing, and that I would fulfill what was necessary – what they needed me to do – to the best of my ability."

"I used to go to work with a smile on my face because they were wonderful actors, also beautiful human beings and I had such a brilliant time."

"I always assumed my talent would shine through the fact I didn’t always know my lines or had been to bed late. Don’t do that."

"Theatre was always my most magical form of escapism as I grew up. I looked forward to my mum taking me to the Hampstead Theatre more than anything in the world, it’s an art which you get together in a packed auditorium and then are collectively taken somewhere else by the actors, the directors, the lighting magicians, and everyone who goes into making a play magical. And it’s an experience that can’t be replicated online."

"Game of Thrones is just tits and dragons."

"And I've run out of pale ale and I feel like I'm in jail and my music bores me once again and I've been on the pinball and I no longer know it all and they say that you never know when you're insane Got fleas in the bedroom got flies in the bathroom and the cat just finished off the bread So I walk over Soho and I read about Monroe And I wonder was she really what they said Got a call from a good friend "Come on down for the weekend" Didn't know if I could spare the time I knew a woman who was crazy about a boy who was lazy but it didn't work out 'cos they just couldn't make it rhyme Hey Jude, you were alright I could have grooved with you all night But you turned your back on the party game Mama if I keep my head clean, will I really have a good dream? Or will I wake up in confusion just the same? And I've run out of pale ale and I feel like I'm in jail Got fleas in the bedroom, got flies in the bathroom Got a call from a good friend, "Come on down for the weekend" Hey Jude, you were alright, I could have grooved with you all night And I've been on the pale ale, and I feel like a pinball ** Brian Protheroe, "Pinball" (song)"

"Govinda! Damodara! Madhaveti! He Krishna! He Murari! He Sakheti! The well I drank from has run dry; the river bed has moved over years, Now cell phones ring instead of bells; the sacred hill has almost disappeared. Prayers and ashes at the river’s edge, drifting side by side; sun rises over new hotels; sages close their eyes…"

"You ask what is the quality of life Seeking to justify the part you play And mask, what seems a worthless fate"

"Watford Gap, Watford Gap A plate of grease and a load of crap"

"I'm sorry that you thought of us as painful and superfluous But please don't think I'm that thick skinned to want my seed in any old wind I can't believe we'll just exist as figments of each others past Where is it at to get to this, when lawyers lurk where lovers kissed?"

"One of those days in England with a sword in every pond And birds in every garden in the land"

"Led Zeppelin recorded the song Hats off to (Roy) Harper. (Led Zeppelin III, 1970)"

"STILL LIFE: The short British wintertime as seen from within my cocoon. Snow three feet deep in places. Icicles. The small ones outside fighting for survival. Dusk before four. Yellow light in the crisp still. A jackdaw's wing beat precisely preserved. An atmosphere."

"And half the blasted idiots are stuck in Yugoslavia With hardly a Dinar And looking no cleaner Than a Chinese wrestler's jock-strap Cooked in chip fat On a greasy day"

"And you know what? I don't think this little song's gonna make the charts"

"PINCHES OF SALT: Are the humanoids pilling the chemistry into reactions they have no control over? Have the wolves of the universal law already started to blow the door down? Is the back door still open? Who the hell cares with a hundred billion freon - filled hair sprays still on sale? Who am I to ctiticise my own crisis?"

"DESCENDANTS OF SMITH: If we manage to get out the 'back door', the technology available in four million years may perhaps rival the twentieth century christian concept of 'judgement day'. Probably much sooner. Meanwhile, which one is Smith?"

"GARDEN OF URANIUM: I moved to a house in Lincolnshire. The government were threatening to dump "low level" nuclear waste about fifteen miles away. The plans were dropped a few months before the last general election. The proposals now seem to have resurfaced somewhere under the North Sea! (among other sites proposed since the election)"

"GOVERNMENT SURPLUS: Employment figures and history books are 'cooked'. Young people are manipulated. The status quo is maintained by an insidious mafiosi piping drugs to the unsuspecting by means of an ever expanding cycloptic media."

"Nothing left to lose Nothing left to fight"

"Every Secret's a blinking light"

"She's driving me crazy, but I'm into it, but I'm into it I'm kinda into it It's getting crazy, I think I'm losing it, I think I'm losing it Oh, I think she said "I'm having your baby, it's none of your business" "I'm having your baby, it's none of your business" "I'm having your baby, it's none of your business" "I'm having your baby, it's none of your, it's none of your""

"In writing songs about stuff like that, I like tipping a hat to the time together. You're celebrating the fact it was powerful and made you feel something, rather than 'this didn't work out, and that's bad.' And if you run into that person, maybe it's awkward, maybe you have to get drunk ... but you shared something. Meeting someone new, sharing those experiences, it's the best shit ever. So thank you."

"That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal."

"I didn’t grow up in a man’s man world. I grew up with my mum and my sister. But I definitely think in the last two years, I’ve become a lot more content with who I am. I think there’s so much masculinity in being vulnerable and allowing yourself to be feminine, and I’m very comfortable with that. Growing up you don’t even know what those things mean. You have this idea of what being masculine is and as you grow up and experience more of the world, you become more comfortable with who you are. Today it’s easier to embrace masculinity in so many different things. I definitely find – through music, writing, talking with friends and being open – that some of the times when I feel most confident is when I’m allowing myself to be vulnerable. It’s something that I definitely try and do."

"Who's to say that young girls who like pop music – short for popular, right? – have worse musical taste than a 30-year-old hipster guy? That's not up to you to say. Music is something that's always changing. There's no goal posts. Young girls like the Beatles. You gonna tell me they're not serious? How can you say young girls don't get it? They're our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going. Teenage-girl fans – they don't lie. If they like you, they're there. They don't act 'too cool.' They like you, and they tell you. Which is sick."

"People in general, not just girls, but people who are younger are obviously extremely impressionable. And I do think it’s important. There's obviously a lot of different body images that are thrown around in society in general. Some things look like they’re more acceptable and some things are made to feel like they’re unacceptable. So, I think it’s very important that it empowers people in general. I think that anytime you can make someone who potentially might not feel as great about themselves as they should, feel better about themselves, I think that’s always a positive thing."

"We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day."

"A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real."

"Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though."

"No. We don't really do that. We feel that objectifies women and that's not really what we're about."

"Some of them are funny. Some of them are ridiculous. Some of them are annoying. I don't want to be one of those people that complains about the rumours. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, "This isn't true!" It is what it is, I tend not to do that."

"The worst thing a boy can do is ignore a girl when she's loving you with all her heart."

"Brooklyn saw me, empty at the news There's no water inside this swimming pool Almost over, had enough from you And I've been praying, I never did before Understand I'm talking to the walls I've been praying ever since New York"

"I used to be in a boyband, that's why I'm so fucked up."

"Does anybody like dolphins? Don’t go to SeaWorld."

"We never learn, we been here before Why are we always stuck and running from The bullets? The bullets?"

"Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with moustaches.""

"Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny."

"We're not who we used to be We're not who we used to be We're just two ghosts standing in the place of you and me Trying to remember how it feels to have a heartbeat"

"Here was me thinking [the United States] was supposed to be the land of the free [and] it all looks very tied up from where I'm standing."

"It's much more a matter of playing the characters as they were written by the authors, because of the liberties that have been taken with pretty much all of them. They've all been distorted in one way or another, because the authors have hardly stuck to the facts."