Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

The best way to lose weight is to put the handle of the fridge two inches from the ground.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.