I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?

You've just gotta find your bliss and go after it.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.