I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

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 know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.