What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?

What was your first job?

Have you ever met anyone famous?

What are you reading right now?

If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?

Who’s someone you really admire?

Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?

Got any favorite quotes?

Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?

What was your favorite band 10 years ago?

What’s your earliest memory?

Been anywhere recently for the first time?

What’s your favorite family tradition?

Who had the most influence on you growing up?

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?

What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?

Seen anything lately that made you smile?

What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?

Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?

How do you like your eggs?

Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?

Got any phobias you’d like to break?

Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?

Do you collect anything?

What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Whoever they want me to fight, I'm going to fight. So I really don't care.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

I'm country through and through.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.

I think I surprise myself.

The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.

I'm a good old Yorkshire girl in that I don't like to talk about things that are on tick. As my nana always said, 'Until you've bought it, it's not yours,' so until it's signed on the dotted line, I don't like to talk about it.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Relax. Nothing’s missing.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.