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

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

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

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.

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

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

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.