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.

I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.

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

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.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.