Amanda harlech

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't...

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it...

I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or...

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away,...

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.