To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

I have done so many love scenes in the past that I have learned how to pull off a sexy smoulder on the dance floor.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.