I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

I'm an addict for underwear.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.

Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.