Quotes from Sara Cox

I'm very partial to an early night in my jammies.

I don't fit into the yummy mummy box, I'm not a party girl anymore, I'm just me.

I'm always painted as a party girl, which was true for my 20s. It's taken a long time to shake off that gobby, in-your-face image. I'm actually quite chilled out.

Your 20s are for partying, your 30s - if you choose to have kids or are lucky enough to have them - are when you give yourself over to childcare, and then in your 40s it just becomes about you a bit more.

It would come as quite a shock to my younger self that my first job was modelling. I was scouted, aged 18, when I went to Paris to visit my older sister, Yvonne, who was at uni there.

I try to look after my voice. I am very aware that if I am going to be doing a voice over the next day or on the radio, not to go out to a really noisy place or shout.

When I've got friends who are about to turn 40, I'm like: 'Babe, you're gonna love it, it's the best!'

Who would think the Sara Cox of the '90s would be so bang into long johns?

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

My main issue is trying to create shape, because I am like an upturned spring onion. I am bulbous at the top, then I sort of whittle away, and my feet are like the green bits. I try to create - with clever use of a skirt and tucked-in top - a waist and hips.

I love doing 'The Breakfast Show,' I like waking up with people and it will be hard to stop.

I'm at work every day, I hold my life together - I'm not exactly waking up in the gutter.

To be honest I see myself as a broadcaster, I'm just on the radio a lot. So I don't really feel like I'm getting papped on the school run with my belly in.

The ladette thing, it's all a bit weird. I never really liked the word as it suggested we wanted to be men. We didn't.

In the days before I had kids I used to take six books with me for a fortnight's holiday. My suitcase used to be full of big trashy novels, maybe a bikini and some flip-flops. It was all I needed.

Animals are good for teaching children about the circle of life.

It will really break my heart when I say bye to 'Breakfast'... but I will be pleased to get my life back.

God, I hate the whole ladette thing. The more distance I get and look back at my party days, the more I'm kinda pleased I did it because it's the last thing I'd want to do now.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

I'm not really into getting bunches of flowers if I'm a bit under the weather, I'd rather have something to eat.

If I go to heaven, I'd like Phillip and Fern or Richard and Judy - if they die first - to be waiting for me with a big plate of pork pies with piccalilli. A comforting thought.

I try not to buy pork pies but sometimes I fail.

I've always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.

I think my peak 90s moment was posing on a Harley-Davidson outside the Met Bar with Wyclef Jean.