I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

Jev stroked his chin. "Do I look like a summer fling?

My cooking spoon, My magic wand, Of this dish, You will be fond.

If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Liberals will only support you after you're gone.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

I want to make music that lots of people will love.

I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.