My parents were not theatrical at all.

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

I adore food and always have.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.