Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Toyah Willcox - Page 2

Live to live. Don't live to die. And never stop learning.

I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.

I was offered a part in the stage version of 'Calendar Girls,' but the part is so predictable. It just makes me angry when I read the script.

In my experience, women are conditioned to expect and accept that life will not only let them down, but they themselves will be the reason for their own downfall in the fullness of time.

If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

My favourite city of all has to be Seattle as it seems to encapsulate everything that is great about both Britain and America.

I'd had a strict religious education.

Not sleeping is a problem when you get older. Not only is it linked to weight gain but the whole point of sleep is it allows your body to heal and replenish itself which is vital for good health.

I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.

My sleep pattern got disrupted around the time I was taking my O-levels, but in those days nobody really addressed things like that in children.

I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.

Acupuncture has made all the difference to my sleep.

My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a dance group of six girls.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.

I have a very powerful belief structure. I'm very spiritual. I'm not religious but I am spiritual.

Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.

You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.

I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.

If I need a bit of RI&IR, I'd go to the Maldives because technology can't reach you.

I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.

I hated every minute of my schooldays.

Women of all ages need to be present in the media to instill girls and young women with self-confidence about their futures. And women of my age need healthy role models. Otherwise, how can we build the future dreams we still deserve to have?

I have a very strict lifestyle. It's a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.

I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.

When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

I define myself by my work, so I'd be a sad creature without working. I just wouldn't get up in the morning.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola.

My mother never slept.

I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

I love being in the United States because I feel so energised there.

I'd like young people to seek my advice, and trust that the decades I have lived through have added to my abilities to be a valuable contributor to the workplace and society.

I'm prudish.

New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.

We are all part of a vibrant, energetic life force and my overwhelming belief is that the mind survives outside of the body and it survives and works outside the body.