"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."

"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."

"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."

"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."

"Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves."

"I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect."

"I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy."

"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."