Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and as any writer will tell you happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

Even modern English people are imperious superior ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics Brahms so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

In mainstream romantic comedies I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children for how difficult their world is.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.