A biography for Fearne Cottonhasn’t been written yet.
“If you're a boy who's a bit hopeless and doesn't know what to get their sister or girlfriend for Christmas: all girls like wearing nail varnish, so they make a good gift.”
“I absolutely love chocolate in a cliched, womanly way and I love gin more than anything but apart from that I think I'm really healthy.”
“I don't think I'm good at anything, but I'm good at painting. It's one thing I can do better than I do my job, definitely.”
“My friendship circle is minuscule.”
“I want an exhibition one day, so I am doing portraits of rock stars. I paint from pictures in magazines.”
“I've been thinking about anger quite a lot. It can be a default emotion for me.”
“For me, because I'm working so much and I want to be a good mum as well as good at work, I need to be healthy to do everything. So eating well and doing yoga is really a vital part of that because it makes me feel good, and happy and sane.”
“I would love to have a day in the year where everyone is legally obliged to be nice to everyone else.”
“I was brought up in a very Eighties house. It was a suburban, mock-Tudor semi-detached house, nothing special. But there was this wallpaper with silver threads and little swans in the dining room. It wasn't just a feature wall. It was the whole room.”
“I don't have wealthy parents or anybody to ask for money.”
“I have a really big imagination, which is amazing - it allows me to write and be creative. But it also sends me to bad places, from where I can't get back.”
“I eat a lot of fruit and veg, but I love sweets, too.”
“It's weird doing cover interviews because you're just chatting about yourself but you try and be as honest as you can.”
“On holiday, I sunbathe a bit, but I get fidgety and give up.”
“I turn my phone off every night at about half eight because otherwise I won't sleep.”
“After Radio 1, I started a magazine column and began opening up about my depression for the first time.”
“If you have happy parents who are wonderfully boring then you are golden.”
“I like to see people in the day for a walk or for coffee. I don't like going out at night. I don't like dinner parties.”
“Each moment is sacred.”
“Recognise that there's a negative side to life and that there will be tough times and challenges. You have to embrace it.”