I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.

I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.