Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

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

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.