I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.