I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage which is going on 14 years I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead I think of more like 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea but for me it's just an idea.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

If someone talks about union fidelity a monogamous relationship love blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing you see I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent but right now I'm very comfortable and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.

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.

No I think marriage is a great thing.

Well marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate but it's in our heads and it determines a lot of our actions. Like right now if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

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.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful powerful man but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I have to be asked I guess but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic and I always have been.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone in my opinion who you have to try hard for.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco say if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

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.'

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be but who knows?

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar and my fans would not respect me if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.