I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I enjoy being a girl.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.