However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.