"Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger."

“A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.”

“I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.”

“Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.”

“When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.”

Source : "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

“There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.”

“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2016). “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”, p.45, Aneko Press

“Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”