If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.