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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.