We bicker all the time - a lot of my friends can't believe how much. He drives me mad because he never listens to me and I drive him mad because I can be horribly selfish. In five minutes we're laughing again.

I know, I know, I probably do need a press manager, ... Jamie was like, JOOLS! But it was just, I was having this girly chat with the journalist and we were getting on so well, it just popped out.

[Poppy and Daisy, meanwhile, can look forward to further immortalisation in a sequel to the book, which, feminist objections notwithstanding, has been on the top 10 bestseller list for several months.] I'd really like to do another one, from ages one to three, but after that there comes a time where you have to say, 'That's enough', ... We don't put them in adverts or anything, and I think when they go to school that will be that.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting.