"I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos."

"Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!"

"Am I missing an eyebrow?"

"Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love."

"The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending."

"Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us."

"We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity."

"Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability."

"I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!"

"I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius."

"I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed."

"I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola."

"I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral."

"Firemen have the coolest toys ever!"

"Bigger is always better."

"This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'"

"When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven."

"Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul"

"Bad spellers of the world untie!"

"My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base."

"Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one."

"There's a fire starting in my heart"

"I know you haven't made your mind up yet, But I will never do you wrong. I've known it from the moment that we met, No doubt in my mind where you belong."

"I don't make music for the eyes, I make music for the ears."

"When the evening shadows and the stars appear, And there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love."

"People say crazy things"

"I'm nervous whenever I perform"

"I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like"

"I don't rely on my figure to sell records."

"I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'"

"It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me."

"I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit."

"I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are."

"I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist."

"I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others."

"I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on."

"I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent."

"Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent."

"I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me."

"I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand."

"Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why."

"I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight."

"I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika."

"I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!"

"I don't date celebrities."

"I don't like going to the gym."

"I'm scared of audiences."

"If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them."

"I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing."

"I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to."