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.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

It can't always be a honeymoon

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

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.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.