It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.