As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

What can I say? I'm a Southern girl.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the Power to influence his own subconscious mind, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.

It is the belief of many that every completed thought starts an unending vibration with which the one who releases it will have to contend at a later time; that man, himself, is but the physical reflection of thought that was put into motion by infinite intelligence.

autosuggestion as a way of altering your habits and beliefs so that you can make yourself into the master salesperson you want to become.

You will become what you want to be because of the dominating thoughts that you permit to occupy your mind.