Quotes from Zoe Ball

I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in 'Top Gun.'

I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: 'Wow, he looks great.'

It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

When I moved to Manchester, to work as a runner for Granada, I shared with a researcher called Vicky who took pity on my inability to cook and made me meals for three years. Put in charge of cookery on a live kids' show I'd buy cookies from a shop to show as 'ones we made earlier.'

I take a lot of trains, so I love reading on the train. I get really annoyed when there are no delays, because I just want to keep reading and finish my book.

To me, 'Transparent' is one of the best family dramas since 'The Sopranos.'

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

My advice to young girls would be, don't get on a sun bed and don't smoke - it wrecks your skin.

I think it's so isolating to be trapped in your mind like that, when you doubt yourself, you doubt everything you've ever known. You doubt your family love you. You doubt your friends care for you.

On most sets, the crew always seem to have some delicious tempting treats nearby - I find that if I've got a packet of almonds around, a handful is a great snack - I'm now offering them to everyone!

I don't think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you're approaching 40 and you've got a kid.

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.

The second time I was pregnant friends would give me rubber bands to gnaw, because the first time, I had chewed things like a rubber bit that fell off the dishwasher. I remember driving once in the rain and the smell of my rubber-soled shoes in the damp caused me to pull over and start chomping on the rubber mat.

When I look at my face, I notice terrible smoker's lines above my lip and nasty sun damage in the middle of my cheeks.

To feel love is the most incredible feeling in the world. To lose it will nearly end you and take you to your knees, but there's always more.

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.

There was a time when I found looking back to the 90s a little bit... tricky.

As for Lady GaGa, she's just a copy of Madonna.

Mental health resources are under huge pressure and there are a lot of people who are not necessarily getting the support they need in time.

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

I've always felt all the jobs I've ever got are on merit.

My twenties were amazing. My thirties were all highs and lows.

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 ate 18 spam fritters in one sitting at Farnham Common junior school in some sort of popularity contest.