Cressida Cowell Quotes

“Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way”

“My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.”

“I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.”

“If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.”

“I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.”

“For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.”

“I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.”

“I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.”

“People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.”

“You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.”