I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

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.

We feel through our minds, we live through our hearts, and we love through our eyes.

Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

We’ve all got to worry some-but we can’t let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

The sun is getting dim, will I pay for who I've been?

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.