“Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.”

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.

For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.

A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.

Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?

Why can’t a woman be more like a man?

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot.

Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

So many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we’ve got a lot of work to do.

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

I don’t get any parts I don’t get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don’t get offered.