No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.

I don't believe in dieting.