I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.

One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.

I think so many people give us ideas of what we are. I think as women especially, because we're sensitive by nature, we're more vulnerable, we absorb other people's ideas about what we're supposed to think or who we're supposed to be and how we're supposed to act.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at home, I turn on the hip-hop. I'm like a bad mutha rapping along to every word as I cook.