Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

I am not doddery... doddery I am not!