It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.

I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.

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.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.

"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years or something, and come back when they go to senior school." Just what kids want to do, pick avocados. Also: senior school?