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'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

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

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.

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

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

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.