It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Some men send me condoms and underpants. I'm not sure what they want.

I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

I've grown up in the public eye, and every decision I've made has always been so public and often inaccurately reported.

I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.

When you're hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.