Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.

Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction.

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.