Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

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.

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

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

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