Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

You cannot schedule death.

When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.