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She had been dominating, assertive. He was softly spoken, downtrodden, with thinning hair and a face that was mournful now for good reason but which might have been the same since the day he got married.

she didn't colour her hair, which was lost in the dead man's land between brown and grey.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to my personality that pops out in the lyrics.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.

In my private life, it was a disaster. In my public life, it was fantastic.

Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.

The happy marriages never get any publicity. It's just the bad ones that you read about.

What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.

I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse!

One minute you're invited to Puff Daddy's party, the next you're at a bash with Donald Trump, Kevin Costner and all these movie stars. Sometimes you had to pinch yourself and ask, what's a girl from the Peak District doing here?'

Part of me wants a bunch of jocks to go to Comic-Con and call them all dweebs so they can be like, 'Pump the brakes a little bit.' But that said, it's all positive. It's just, of course, I'm going to find some cynicism in it.

I grew up in the northernmost parts of New Jersey, known more for lush forests and old farmland than industrial wastelands and fist pumping.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.'

Hunx was more punk, and Seth Bogart is more pop and plastic.

I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.

We like to combine genres. Theo grew up listening to punk, and I love Christina Aguilera.

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.