“It was early detection that saved my voice – and I imagine, my life.”

I’ve still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

I’ve always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it’s my song, I can make it seem honest.

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. It’s like me. I’ve been around long enough and I’ve come back in fashion.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris – they are things of beauty.

You are my lover, you’re my best friend. You’re in my soul.

You can keep your Streisands.

I’m a rock star because I couldn’t be a soccer star.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You’re ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you’re beauty and elegance.

I’ve always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you’re undecided.

I’ve had tremendous success I’m very lucky.

My big brother still thinks he’s a better singer than me.

You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul. You’ll be my breath, should I grow old.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He’s a champion on early-childhood development strategies.

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn’t always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.

Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.