I'd love to go visit the 'Lord Of The Rings' set! That's something that we always want to do, but we don't ever have the time.
If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.
I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciting time for TV drama - it was the birth of Channel 4, and Brookside was very cutting-edge at the time.
It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.
No, I always wanted to be an actress.
Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter. . . I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.