I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate.

Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Cosmic Ordering is like an echo! What you ask for comes back.

Pain, sometimes, is like Love. It grows, until it becomes your Life.

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

We in Europe have great capacities.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.