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If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

Your library is your portrait.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Genius is initiative on fire.

When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

I'm someone who'd never base how happy I am on how much money I have, or how good a restaurant is because of how posh it is.

I'm not afraid to say I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love who I love.

I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.

I do my own make-up a lot of the time, and I'm very involved in what I wear.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.