“I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don’t really have those in England yet.”

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

I see no end to the possibility and the potential of Adam Lambert. He’s a fabulous performer, and I think it would be very interesting to do something with him.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

If somebody’s going to represent our music live, I’d like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.

It is everyone’s prerogative to retire. But it’s like giving up on life as far as I’m concerned.

Once a musician, always a musician.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they’re important.

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

It’s amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.