People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.