I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy we talked for hours. It was a relief really.

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

Even though marriage is doomed if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage when you're younger you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

There were times after my marriage ended where you know I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain there was a great big fog up there and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

Well you know I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.

Right now I'm not really thinking about marriage.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

I suffered I really suffered with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live and being open and honest and communicating but ultimately doing what pleases God and not in a selfish manner.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage my kids and my grandchildren. If you don't have that you really don't have very much.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give the more they possess.

I really love idiot enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

When I sing I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love when you really touch someone for the first time but it's gigantic multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long where it really is nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

In our minds love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.