I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

I would never say never to marrying again but for the time being I'm having a great time.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

My students are constantly amazing me.

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.