You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

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

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.

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

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