I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

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.

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

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.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I don't like conflict.

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.