I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.