My mother gave me very good advice years ago. I grew up in the Great Depression and she always told me to get a good little basic black dress - well-cut, well-made, good fabric - and it could take me through everything. I could go to the office in the morning and stay out all day in the same dress. Just by changing accessories, because they are so transformative, you can make six different outfits. I find that very useful. My mother worshipped at the altar of accessories and I'm an accessory freak, as everybody knows. That, I got from my mother.

I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.

When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.

My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.

I'm delighted that gay people want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.

I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.