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.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

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

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

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.

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

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