I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

There are a lots of clowns in our family - our house is a fun house.