If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.