Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Zoe Ball

I have worked for the BBC for a lot of my career and I kind of always did it for the love. People always go, 'Oooh, well that's nonsense,' but it isn't, I love my job, I love what I do.

In a way, I got away with a lot because a lot of our partying was done behind closed doors. But I don't ever want to be that person again, who embarrasses my family with my behaviour.

You know, I look at my kids or my friends and think 'I couldn't love you any more.' And then I do.

I would be more slender if I didn't eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I'm not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup - I need to chomp.

I only have vague memories of the Radio 1 days because it was quite a time.

Laura Marling is Joni Mitchell-level for me.

There was a time when I found looking back to the 90s a little bit... tricky.

When you grow up as a woman, there is that confusion where you think, 'I need to be this or that to fit in.' Now, I'm very much like, 'No, this is what I am.'

I think the ladette culture was a label thing, and it was the nineties and it was Britpop and it was quite wild.

Love just keeps on coming.

Everything seems to taste better when you aren't allowed it yet.

You just have to be you.

It is kind of a strange thing when you face things in your life, you know like addictions, that often you will find that you will deal with it a little bit but then you will slip back into old ways.

I remember cream cheese in celery, with a sprinkling of paprika, served at my dad and stepmum's 'soirees' in the 70s, where people danced to Slade in long tartan dresses. I'd go down and eat the cheese cubes left over from cheese and pineapple on sticks, because guests would only eat the pineapple.

I'm such a different person to the one I was at Radio 1... and I like to think that women are treated slightly differently to back then.

Don't get me wrong, there are good presenters. There's Graham Norton and Johnny Vaughan and Sara Cox.

It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

To feel love is the most incredible feeling in the world. To lose it will nearly end you and take you to your knees, but there's always more.

My love for the Bee Gees and their disco vibes is huge.

I remember seeing Norman Cook swimming in a pair of burgundy pants. I thought: 'Wow, he looks great.'

Erm, you know, honestly, I've never done what I do because of the money.

I've listened to Terry Wogan since I was a girl; my parents listened to David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington.

Someone taught me this really lovely thing, which is when you're panicking or thinking, 'I can't do this, I can't do this,' you just say, 'Right. Hi, negative thoughts. Stop bothering me. If you just wait there, I'm going to do this job, then I'll come back and talk to you later.'

It's really important that we look after our libraries.

Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to talk about it. The people suffering don't want sympathy.

I think something that's really important to share, having spoken now to lots of people who work within mental health support networks or people trying to make a difference, is that there is hope. There is help available.

It's great fun to try to entertain.

I just wanted to be a performer. I was ambitious. I couldn't sing and I couldn't act. I could dance a little. So what was there left for me to do? Television presenter. That was it.

Everyone has a breaking point.

I have a really large family, so we have three big Christmas celebrations. This involves intense diary planning, compromising between the families - and serious food shopping.

What I've always done in my past when life hit a rocky patch was run from trouble into the next relationship. I didn't realise it would be such a big deal. That was foolish.

I don't think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you're approaching 40 and you've got a kid.

It's taken me a long time to grow up.

When my brother and I were small, somebody pointed out that we looked like something out of 'The Dark Crystal.' I think it was affectionate, but I've never been an oil painting.

I was given a lot of opportunities when I was younger that I kind of threw away.

My family love Khruangbin's faraway soundscapes.

I only ever wanted to be Barbra Streisand.

I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in 'Top Gun.'

In my middle age I seem to love a bit of pastoral telly: 'Countryfile,' 'Springwatch.' I love watching people in nature. It's a moment of calm, it's a moment of meditation.

I was almost arrested in Camden in the 90s.

I always eat after a show and I love a big fry-up.

Great gifts include warm pyjamas, bedsocks, scarves and blankets.

When I moved to Manchester, to work as a runner for Granada, I shared with a researcher called Vicky who took pity on my inability to cook and made me meals for three years. Put in charge of cookery on a live kids' show I'd buy cookies from a shop to show as 'ones we made earlier.'

I'm such a Beeb girl, they've always been great to me. I've worked at ITV and Channel 4, but the BBC has always felt like home.

I love a good cup of tea and you can never have too many mugs. Even better if it's homemade pottery, inspired by 'The Great Pottery Throw Down.'

I generally buy things for people that I'd love to receive myself - so I have plenty of time to curate my own wish list while I shop.

My advice to young girls would be, don't get on a sun bed and don't smoke - it wrecks your skin.

Love fills your heart and breaks your heart; it's so unpredictable, you don't know where it's going to come from.

I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room singing to my dad's Streisand records.

I have a terrible fear of more talented people than me thinking I'm just a prat who does kids' TV.

I wished they did more things like 'How' and 'Tomorrow's World.' Programmes about how things work.

I was lucky enough to go to rehab.

When I look at my face, I notice terrible smoker's lines above my lip and nasty sun damage in the middle of my cheeks.

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.

I remember Will Smith and me seeing who had the most sticky-out ears.

I don't have regrets, life is too short. You have to think about the positives and move forward.

On a Friday night, I switch on my log burner, stick on 'Gardeners' World' and I am so happy.

The second time I was pregnant friends would give me rubber bands to gnaw, because the first time, I had chewed things like a rubber bit that fell off the dishwasher. I remember driving once in the rain and the smell of my rubber-soled shoes in the damp caused me to pull over and start chomping on the rubber mat.

I take a lot of trains, so I love reading on the train. I get really annoyed when there are no delays, because I just want to keep reading and finish my book.

To me, 'Transparent' is one of the best family dramas since 'The Sopranos.'