I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.
The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.
A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and the mercurial brilliance of a host of musicians, and shape them all to his or her interpretative ends.
My dad was a keen philatelist and, when he died, he left me an album he'd curated over some 40 years. He'd handpicked every item, saying each one reminded him of me. I opened it to discover the pages were full of beige stamps bearing the image of George V. Take from that what you will.
I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.
Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.
I have a freelancer's mentality: if I leave the country for more than 24 hours on a non-work trip, I believe I will never be employed again.
Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.
Because I'm busy, I don't sit down to a lot of big formal meals - unless I've got mates round, in which case I'll cook something.
My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.
I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.
For me, a great meal is a collision of company, environment, ambient temperature, the waiters, where you are emotionally.
I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.
Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.
I have a voice inside. A voice that I am forever trying to silence. A voice that calls me in when I want to be out, playing. A voice that is always sad. That is always terrified. That always wants to sit in the darkened room, away from noise and movement and colour - away from any experience that could prove to be challenging.
When it started, 'Bake Off' wasn't a big hit. Respect to the people who said, 'We'll keep commissioning this and give it a chance.'
My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.
I always assumed that the reason I've never run a marathon is because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line.
It was a privilege to experience life beyond the cliches and to witness the vibrancy, chaos, and multiculturalism of Bengal first hand.
