How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

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.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.