On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

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.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

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

I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so.