My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.