All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.