I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.