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

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.