Zitat des Tages über Adele:
I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I had an undeniable right to be who I wanted to be. My father said to hit them back, but I was never much good at that. So I developed a big mouth instead of a quick right hook.
I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.
I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.
The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.
I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.
People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.
I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.
You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.
On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.
I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.
All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.
Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.