I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.
Trudie Styler
In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.
The scars on the face have always given me a sense that I'm not a very attractive person. I'm always unsure of myself, of my facial self.
I don't have a musical bone in my body.
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 was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.
I like juices and antioxidants. I'm a health nut.
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.
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.
My daughter Mickey is an actress, and I tell her women need to make their own films; they should always be looking for stories to develop themselves and go to acting class - not that she needs much prompting in that!
My life is extravagant.
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.
Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.
I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.
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.
I'm lucky enough to have some celebrity light around me. I can go on a platform and say what I think to represent these voices that can't be heard.
I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.
If I'm connected to an idea, it just doesn't let me go. All I have to do is catch up to the image in my head by doing the practical steps to get there.
My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.
Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.
Our body is the only one we've been given, so we need to maintain it; we need to give it the best nutrition.
We need to be creating products that incentivise women to come to the movies more.
I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.
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.
As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet.
When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.
I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.
I think having a good yoga practice and a spiritual practice is a recipe for living well and, hopefully, living longer.
We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.
I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.
I didn't really have many friends as a child.
We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.
I've had a few ghostly encounters.
I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.
I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.
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.
Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.
There are some things I feel the need to pussyfoot around that I would like to... give vent to. But I realise the press isn't the place to do that.
I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends.
Telling women's stories is really important.
I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser.
Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.
The core is the most important muscle group in your body. If your core is not strong, the rest of your body is weakened, too.
I could only imagine myself being successful.
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.
If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!
The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.
At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.
I feel at home wherever Sting is - he's my home.
