I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

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.

In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu

If I write as well as I golf, I'm in trouble!

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

I want to give the people a lot more, and be able to perform more than just my one single and all my old songs.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.