When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.