By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

Be loving but bold, be kind but not cold.

I am hearing a more resounding voice in the spirit saying, God is changing the guard in the Nigerian church.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.