“I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hund...” — Elizabeth Fraser Quote

“I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.”

“I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job.”

“I've never written to a band since the Beatles. Since the Dave Clark Five!”

“I'm very perfectionist.”

“Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.”

“I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could have possibly made me laugh or smile. It was awful.”

“Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.”

“Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.”

“Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with my family or with the gentiles... but there was no foothold in between.”

“I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.”

“It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.”

“I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.”