I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.