In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

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.