There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.