I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.