(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

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

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

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