It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.

I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

Without art there is no hope.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.