Quotes from Sara Cox

If I don't have my 1-Day Acuvue Moist Brand Multifocal contact lenses in, I simply don't feel as confident.

There's always someone waiting to take your job so you've got to crack on and do your best.

I've started cycling everywhere on my electric bike; it's the best decision I ever made. Best part? The bike does some of the work for you!

I like hip-hop, I like a lot of dance music. If it's got drums in it.

I would get fit after having each of my children but it was always slightly tainted with guilt because I would feel guilty if they were with a nanny or at nursery while I was working out.

About once every three and a half weeks, I need a Big Mac, but after that I'm fine.

I don't like cakey things but will devour anything pickled or salty like capers, beetroot and anchovies.

I do sometimes joke that I'm Tarzan and Ben's Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there's dead things in the garden.

Believe me, there's nothing worse than the feeling in the pit of your stomach when you're sat in the back of a taxi, listening to someone else doing your show as you dash to the studio.

I'm never fake on air.

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

On telly, if it's not the right kind of show, I revert back to my 'Girlie Show' persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I'm not actually like that, I'm actually quite - not clever, but smart with my words.

I don't really trust people who don't like dogs. We always had dogs on the farm I grew up on near Bolton.

My dad is a farmer, so I used to love watching 'All Creatures Great and Small' - that's where I got most of my death and drama.

Women need to be treated equally as men, but there are issues with the term feminist and people balk at that.

Radio 2 feels like I'm still at the pub with all my friends but now my father-in-law has joined the table. But I love it. If I was a stick of rock I'd have BBC written through me.

Doing regular exercise puts me in a good mood.

When I was working for Radio 1 in Ibiza I stayed in a horrible place with a tiny window and really noisy air conditioning - the last thing you need in Ibiza, where you're often a little bit the worse for wear at the end of the night.

In the 80s, mum used to make a beautiful beef in red wine sauce, which I thought very exotic. And an incredible chilli con carne, with baked beans so it wasn't too spicy for us. Later, when I asked for the recipes, she said: 'I don't know - they were Colman's or Schwartz's packet mixes.' It completely ruined it for me.

I'm really quite girly.

It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book.

I just like feeling good; I love the gym, I love running, I've taken riding lessons - I've got three kids, so I have a good reason to keep fit and stay healthy. Although I'm not an angel and I do love eating well!

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.