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

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.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

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 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.

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.