Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Sara Cox

My brain is always whizzing around with worries: could I have done an interview better? Have I prepared enough for the next one? If it's really bad, I'll listen to an audiobook or use the Headspace app, and then my brain usually goes back to sleep.

It would come as quite a shock to my younger self that my first job was modelling. I was scouted, aged 18, when I went to Paris to visit my older sister, Yvonne, who was at uni there.

I try to avoid showbusiness parties.

It sometimes takes me a fortnight to unpack. I find it so depressing. A bit of sand will come out of a shoe and it'll just take me back to where we were: lovely and relaxed on holiday.

I don't fit into the yummy mummy box, I'm not a party girl anymore, I'm just me.

Doing regular exercise puts me in a good mood.

On one trip to the south of France, when I was just pregnant with Isaac, I got a horrendous stomach upset and the whole holiday was a washout. I had to go and have blood tests and my poor other half had to look after Lola because I was so ill.

It will really break my heart when I say bye to 'Breakfast'... but I will be pleased to get my life back.

I'm never fake on air.

I catastrophise.

I love finding out how authors work, because it can either go full Carrie in 'Homeland,' with loads of Post-it Notes and string on the wall and they know everything that's happening in the plot - or they let the characters tell them where they want to go and what happens next.

I love doing 'The Breakfast Show,' I like waking up with people and it will be hard to stop.

I tried going veggie once, but it lasted about four hours.

My favourite organic recipe is probably a huge batch of chilli con carne cooked with organic low fat British minced beef, tons of kidney beans, tomatoes and baked beans.

I've always seen kids with parents who were still together as quite posh.

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

I'm really good at turning off lights, it's a working-class thing.

I was very nervous interviewing Genesis on Radio 2. I felt out of my depth and somebody tweeted afterwards: Sara Cox interviewing Genesis - what a waste. I was crushed, because I kind of knew it was true.

I can't do heels - I look like a cowboy in drag. I've a terrible gait, and I'm more at home in wellies, riding boots or trainers. With my dad being a farmer, I was raised in a welly.

In the days before I had kids I used to take six books with me for a fortnight's holiday. My suitcase used to be full of big trashy novels, maybe a bikini and some flip-flops. It was all I needed.

I aspire to be a good dinner party host.

Normally I don't have a scrap of makeup on me when I'm on the radio.

I don't find the early mornings difficult.

I think I am quite a morning person naturally, I think it may be breakfast radio that has made me be like that.

My go-to products are a Tom Ford tinted moisturiser, an Armani foundation and a Smashbox mascara.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

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'm not really into getting bunches of flowers if I'm a bit under the weather, I'd rather have something to eat.

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

If I wear lipstick, my lips take over my face - I've got one of those mouths - so I stick to gloss or lip balm.

The ladette thing, it's all a bit weird. I never really liked the word as it suggested we wanted to be men. We didn't.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

The farm life, the space, the muck, I absolutely loved it - it was like having your own kingdom.

I remember when I was at Radio 1 I would get these Tweets saying 'Shut up! You're so old!' I was 36!

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

I like skinny jeans with Nikes or brogues.

I'm obsessed with the BBC comedy 'Mum.'

I'm sure Zoe Ball and Donna Air, and Nic and Nat Appleton - we'll go to the grave with our '90s secrets.

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

I'm not very good with spending money.

My food villain is salt. I'd love to be have the odd ready meal as a lazy treat, but some contain 33% of your salt intake! i just cant do it to myself!

Visualisation is the future of radio.

My main issue is trying to create shape, because I am like an upturned spring onion. I am bulbous at the top, then I sort of whittle away, and my feet are like the green bits. I try to create - with clever use of a skirt and tucked-in top - a waist and hips.

I love a jar of cockles. I love anything in vinegar - beetroot, little silverskin onions, cornichons - I'm forever grazing on stuff like that, fingers in a jar.

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

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.

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.

There's not a lot of food eaten by models. I didn't really eat.

I try not to buy pork pies but sometimes I fail.

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.

If I go to heaven, I'd like Phillip and Fern or Richard and Judy - if they die first - to be waiting for me with a big plate of pork pies with piccalilli. A comforting thought.

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.

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.

I'm very partial to an early night in my jammies.

I'm obsessed by food and flavours.

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

I'm a huge fan of reading.

I love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a vet. My four older siblings and I grew up on my dad's beef farm near Bolton, and I loved all our animals.

There are so many occasions when I'd like to go back in time and have a word with myself.