You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.

You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it without the support of so many people.

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

Life is too short not to experiment.

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Where there is no vision, the people won't follow. Vision for a better future is the great motivator.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

The body is like a piano and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.

In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.