Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

There is a dark side. I tend not to be as optimistic as Mary Richards. I have an anger in me that I carry from my childhood experiences - I expect a lot of myself and I'm not too kind to myself.

But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.