Quotes from Trudie Styler

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

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.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

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

We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

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.

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.

I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.

Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.

We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned.

I love women; I have women friends, but I'm definitely a heterosexual.

I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends.

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

The standing yoga routines work all the main muscles of the body and improve stamina while increasing your metabolic rate, and there is a specific Yoga Abs workout to build all-important core strength to improve posture and trim the waistline.

Ashtanga yoga is a well known practice for keeping yourself fit and healthy. Yoga is good for my body.

Yoga is the best holistic workout and body toner there is. It sorts out a chaotic mind and calms the body - it is how I de-stress - or stop myself getting stressed in the first place.