My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

Exercise is my outlet, the one thing I do during the day that's mine and mine alone. I don't want to work with a trainer, and I don't want to go with friends to the gym. It's my solitude, and I need it.

I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

I still feel like Ive crashed the party.

Actually, I'm delighted when someone confesses to being surprised to discover something about me. It means I've been very successful in maintaining what is most precious to me - keeping the things that really matter in my life unexposed.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.