Zoe Ball

“I don't have regrets, life is too short. You have to think about the positives and move forward.”

“It's so hard to sit and watch someone you love and care for struggle with mental health.”

“I was lucky enough to go to rehab.”

“I would be more slender if I didn't eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I'm not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup - I need to chomp.”

“I always eat after a show and I love a big fry-up.”

“I've seen friends get together with someone who's not single, and thought, 'God, don't' - but then it has worked out. Equally, I've seen friends go through terrible times, but still manage to stay together.”

“Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to talk about it. The people suffering don't want sympathy.”

“My best characteristic is that I don't take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I'll be mucking about. So I'm aware it's annoying for everyone else.”

“I wished they did more things like 'How' and 'Tomorrow's World.' Programmes about how things work.”

“Love just keeps on coming.”

“For a long time I genuinely thought I'd be the next Streisand, so it was crushing to discover that I couldn't sing or act.”

“I use this little trick where I take my arms up above my head, breathe in really slowly, and repeat. I do it before every show, TV or radio, and people always laugh at me. But it really helps.”

“I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room singing to my dad's Streisand records.”

“I was one of those kids who ate everyone's school dinners. They used to call me 'Pig of The Year.'”

“Brighton is such a good place to bring up kids.”

“I'm such a different person to the one I was at Radio 1... and I like to think that women are treated slightly differently to back then.”

“Don't get me wrong, there are good presenters. There's Graham Norton and Johnny Vaughan and Sara Cox.”

“I think something that's really important to share, having spoken now to lots of people who work within mental health support networks or people trying to make a difference, is that there is hope. There is help available.”

“Whatever has gone on in the week, 'Gardeners' World' marks the end of it.”

“Someone taught me this really lovely thing, which is when you're panicking or thinking, 'I can't do this, I can't do this,' you just say, 'Right. Hi, negative thoughts. Stop bothering me. If you just wait there, I'm going to do this job, then I'll come back and talk to you later.'”