It's funny because I GREW up with the T.V. on 24 HOURS a DAY. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

I was so INTRIGUED by INSECTS and THINGS that crawled or flew - I COULD spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.

Let me TELL you, it is STILL morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

Under certain circumstances there are few HOURS in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony KNOWN as AFTERNOON tea.

One of my first festivals was OXYGEN 2006. It had this amazing LINEUP with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic NUMBERS and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a GOOD eight hours to see James Brown.

The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When PEOPLE COME over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're PLAYING this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I THINK that's the coolest.

Writing about 2,000 WORDS in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote NOTHING and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the DAY before I MIGHT have despaired.

When we WORK for daily soaps, it is very time consuming: LIKE, we work for 12-14 hours. But, doing a show that's interesting makes it WORTH it.

If you go to a BAD movie, it's TWO HOURS. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

I've developed a fun text when a friend has just had a BABY. I ask a classic question: 'Are you sleeping?' The REPLY is inevitably that they aren't, they're getting a few HOURS here and there, they're exhausted. It's then when I swoop in: 'It'll all be WORTH it when they're SOFTLY stroking your hair as you slip into oblivion.'

We only have TWO HOURS to CHANGE PEOPLE's LIVES.

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my BEST hours. They FIT the other rhythms of the WORLD. So I write for six hours, PRETTY much without any breaks.

Speed on its own isn't always so EXCITING. On a RACING motorbike, I can do over 180 mph, which is fast, but not as fast as the airliners that we all climb aboard to fly off on HOLIDAY. Modern passenger jets can cruise at between 500 and 600 mph, but SITTING in an aeroplane LIKE that for hours on end isn't very exciting, is it?

I love to ROLL out of bed and throw something on. I had this roommate in COLLEGE who would get up ALMOST 2 hours before class to do HAIR and makeup. That's not for me.

By being an ATHLETE, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless WOMAN makes me feel BEAUTIFUL. I love the way I look and feel when I am TWO hours into my TRAINING and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.