I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.