I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.

I am seriously considering it.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

Deep rivers run quiet.

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.