My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

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 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.

I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

Problems don't exist because people are religious people are religious because problems exist.

The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feelings are very hard to express by words.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.