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.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

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

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

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.