I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

I like to shock people.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.