I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

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.

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.

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

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.