110 quotes found
Singer · English · 1959
English singer (born 1959)
“The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people wi...”
“Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.”
“What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.”
“Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.”
“Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.”
“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minut...”
“Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.”
“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
“If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.”
“I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked...”
“I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.”
“Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but becau...”
“I hated the royal wedding.”
“Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be.”
“It's so easy to laughIt's so easy to hateIt takes guts to be gentle and kind”
“You made me feel less aloneYou made me feel not quite soDeformed, uninformed and hunchbackedAre you aware wherever you areThat you have just died?”
“. . . in the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.”
“True abundance is not about gathering more things it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided.”
“Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings wit...”
“The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal...”
