There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.