Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.
To her you're Jocelyn's daughter. But I'll always be Valentine's son