I'm a grazer by nature - fruit, nuts - but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.

Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often leave the theatre with layers of pancake make-up still on my face, but on a medium such as TV, I have to be more fastidious.

The hardest thing about 'Strictly' is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.

I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

You don't just become a success overnight.

I know, for me, dance did inspire me. Not just in how I feel but that confidence of being able to hold myself and come into a room and just feel comfortable with my body and how I stand and how you present yourself and just how you wear clothes, even.

Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every muscle in your body has been stretched and tightened, stretched and tightened.

I hate when I get stiff, and I really notice that.

I hate exercise when it's a regime, but I love a bit of dance, just moving the whole body.

I can't imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.

I hate throwing personal things away, especially my cards. As I know I won't be dancing for ever, these are the things that I will look back on.

Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.

As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.

I am damn good with money.

I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.

Sometimes I regret that I don't have a bit more fun with money. I should have spoilt myself a bit more. Life isn't going to last for ever.

If I had a caterer that lived at home, it would be fabulous!

I'm not a big cook at all, but anything easy and quick, like pasta, I'm up to. My husband cooks for me because he finds cooking relaxing.

We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.

I do feel blessed to have small ears - I've never felt self-conscious when my hair is swept back. My feet are a different story - I grew up being painfully aware of them because they are so long.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

One of my pet peeves is when people think that pop guys go country when they can't make it in pop anymore.

I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

I got turned onto the 'Pat Garrett' soundtrack when I worked retail back in the day.

I used to love watching 'Hee Haw' on TV when I was a kid. My brothers and sisters weren't happy about it, but I just loved the music.

With 'Wagon Wheel,' I loved the visual it painted, and it's a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

School was very important to me ,and music was what kept me coming back.

The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.

There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.

If my music career was my golf game, I'd be playing for about 26 people tonight somewhere.

I'm always up at 7:30, usually earlier. Having three kids will do that.

That's one of my pet peeves. People always want to put something into a category - this one or that one. You know, a great song is a great song.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.