Quotes from Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I learnt basic cookery by watching my mum.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Acting has been very useful to me.

The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

I adore food and always have.