I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.

Like our muscles, our thinking power grows when we struggle.

Never give yourself a reason to betray your positive inner-self by playing evil games with negative minds.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

How can you stop writing?

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.