When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
It's hard to quit when you already have a clear positive mental picture of what you seek.
You would never know what you are truly capable of until quitting is no longer a way out.
