It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you sh….

Just because I'm from North Harrow some people want me to be a proper chav. I'm not from a poor background, but we have a normal size house, and my m….

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want..

Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewis….

It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different ….

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole..

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of st….

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual..

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all..

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple..

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing..

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, pe….

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people w….

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggress….

What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone ….

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people ….

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage..

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipli….

I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we a….

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention..

I think, over the course of one's lifetime, there are always certain core elements that are intriguing to you, and you take different looks as you ge….