I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and th….

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's ….

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

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

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that..

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and i….

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 yo….

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..

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….

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 ou….

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair sa….

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest dis….

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

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

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull..

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys..

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring..

People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a mag….

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right..

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate d….

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power..