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

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.

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 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.

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