I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!

It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

Start before you’re ready.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?