I Box For Four Hours A Week

My Principal Motivation Is Supporting My Family, Which Is Not A Bad Reason For Getting Up In The Morning. That's Always Been My Motivation - To Take Care Of The People Who Rely On Me.

The Thing I Care About Is My Weight - I'm As Fanatical About It As A Member Of Girls Aloud. I Weigh Myself Every Morning. I Know Exactly What I Want To Be - 82kg - And I Try To Stick To It.

You Have To Give Kids From Ordinary Families A Ladder. You Have To Show Them There's A Way Out.

It's Painful And It's Messy. But Sometimes You Just Have To Make The Break And Start Again.

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.