"I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed."

"I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that."

"I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be."

"I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned."

"I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers."

"It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs."

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

"When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker."