It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Have enough sense to know ahead of time when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Smoking kills. If you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life.

Life is hard. After all it kills you.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when as a nation we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him family was everything. We could disagree inside the house but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor he looked sideways but said okay.