Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.