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'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.

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

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

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.