You is getting nosier than a parker.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light

Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

Let your love out

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

I like enthusiasts of any kind.

Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

I'm contemplatin' thinkin' about thinkin'...

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.