Trudie Styler

“I could only imagine myself being successful.”

“As a producer, I'm quite nurturing, I like working with inexperienced, unseasoned directors.”

“In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films.”

“I think David Cameron is really not very passionate about the environment. He said all the right things. I don't think he's come through with anything that's tangible.”

“The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.”

“We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.”

“I've had a few ghostly encounters.”

“Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.”

“I was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.”

“I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.”

“My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.”

“When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.”

“I got called Scarface at school.”

“There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite, and we're running out. Fact.”

“I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.”

“I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.”

“I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.”

“I have great people who help me be on time, but I'm not an on-time person, and I'm very chaotic in my thoughts.”

“When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.”

“The scars on the face have always given me a sense that I'm not a very attractive person. I'm always unsure of myself, of my facial self.”