I have done nothing wrong.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching, which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.