I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

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.

See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

Be under the broad day light and act rightly

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.