It was my father who taught me to value myself.

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.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

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.