I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

I signed up for the musical Tommy in the West End, where I met my husband.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

To dwell is to garden.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.