"If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues."

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“I think you have to embrace being a role model because you are in the public eye, and whether you like it or not, people are going to be affected by you positively or negatively, ... Public-wise, I really wouldnt do anything that would be detrimental to anybody else or to myself. And to a certain extent, I try to watch out and try not to do anything that would be bad for kids to see.”

“A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.”

Source : Celeste Bradley (2008). “Duke Most Wanted”, p.129, Macmillan

“And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?”

“I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.”

Source : "David Harewood: My family values". Interview with Busola Evans, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

“It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.”

Source : "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

“The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.”

Source : "Key quotes: Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest and Press Association, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

“Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.”