My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.

Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.

I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.