I do need my independence. I have to have that.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.

I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us.

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.