Central heating is my vice - I have it on a bit too much as I am always cold. I try to make up for it in other green ways.
— Sophie Dahl
I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.
I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.
I was an only child until I was six.
My grandfather loved the countryside.
I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.
When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.
Because I cook a lot, I wanted to write a recipe book, really incorporating the message that you don't have to starve yourself to be reasonably skinny.
I have a great deal of admiration for my mum.
When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.
I have nothing against a good facelift.
Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.
I have become that middle-aged woman who listens to the 'Hamilton' soundtrack in my kitchen.
I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.
I didn't finish my A-levels so there was always a part of me that wanted to be taken seriously.
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!
I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.
I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.
The most evocative food smell is American seaside food - tuna melts and cookie dough ice cream, or the British version, fish and chips and toffee apples.
My younger sister, Clover arrived three days before my seventh birthday and I wanted to sell her. I'd had my mother, stepfather, and nanny Maureen, all to myself, and suddenly there was this bonny baby with green grass eyes that everyone adored.
My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.
I've started running since I had kids, and I've become one of those annoying people who likes running.
I'd love to master another language properly.
I come from a family of greedy food lovers.
My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.
I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.
I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.
My mother tells this joke about how when I was little I used to say, 'Mummy, all I want is a stable home!' and she'd reply, 'That's all right, darling, we'll buy you a stable.'
It is hard finding clothes that fit. At the German Vogue shoot most of the clothes were undone at the back.
I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.
I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.
When you meet someone who really sees you, it gives you the emotional freedom to pursue your dreams.
My mother, all of her sisters and my siblings all went through a stage from the age of about 15 to 19 where they widened and then lengthened. Had I not been modelling, that would have been a phase that was in a family photo album rather than in Vogue.
I love cooking fish pies.
At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.
If I had to become a food I would be a pineapple. Spiky, but quite sweet really.
My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.
It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather than flawed humans muddling along like the rest of us.
I'm doing what I've always wanted to do: being a mum, writing, living in the country, having a happy time.
Starving isn't sexy. What's sexy is a healthy appreciation for food.
When I modeled, my name always came with a preface: 'the voluptuous Sophie Dahl.' I was the anti-waif, as round as a Rubens.
My childhood was such an odd one, but with such magic, and the quirky grown-ups who were in it managed to still bring a huge sense of love and magic, so for that I'm really grateful.
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.
I think with girls you have a real responsibility in terms of how you discuss the physical. Talking about your looks or body in a derogatory way doesn't do them any favours.
My grandmother is really awful sometimes.
I'm always either listening to 'Hamilton,' which makes me cry, or Giggs, who makes me laugh.
I always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.
I didn't like being a model. It feels weird to stand in your knickers in front of people you aren't married to.
My siblings and I had a loving but very chaotic and muddled childhood, and as a result we have sought out lives that are consistent and stable, domestic and happy.
I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.
