“I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect...” — Morten Harket Quote

“I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.”

“Mind you, the limelight exists anywhere in the world. When you're not in the U.K., it can be as active somewhere else in the world, and for me, that's more or less been the case, so I never dropped out of the limelight in that sense.”

“I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.”

“If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.”

“My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.”

“If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.”

“As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.”

“The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.”

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”

“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.”

“I find beauty in imperfection.”

“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”