Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!

[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.