I've never WORKED in my natural accent, having STUDIED so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at SCHOOL for 'talking funny.'

I didn't STUDY BROADCASTING in school, but I did a lot of internships, and I dedicated myself so much so that I made my email password 'Todayshow10' because I WANTED to be on the 'Today Show' by 2010.

It will take 150 YEARS or SEVEN GENERATIONS to heal the wound of the residential SCHOOL.

Some parents do not SEND their CHILDREN to SCHOOL because they don't know its IMPORTANCE at all.

Being sent AWAY to boarding school at seven is as GREAT an inspiration as any songwriter COULD have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does CREATE an incredible intensity of emotion.

It is an awfully SAD MISCONCEPTION that librarians simply CHECK books in and out. The library is the HEART of a school, and WITHOUT a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

My father was a sheep shearer, so I GREW up in a caravan; we'd GO around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted US to be educated, so I went to a school.

I moved when I was about 12 years OLD: different school, had to live in digs. It was harder for my family, but eventually, they understood it was a path that MANCHESTER United had made for me. I had to STICK to it, and it has paid off.

I FOUND that I was just HOPELESS at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in ART and ENGLISH, and then just art. Then I passed out.

I don't have any FRIENDS from my CHILDHOOD because I didn't STAY at one SCHOOL for very LONG.

The reason most people get EATING disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows ANYTHING about NUTRITION or exercise. I think it should be a separate SUBJECT in SCHOOL.

When I was in elementary school, I USED to WRITE letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy BIRTHDAY. I HOPE you're doing something.'

I was OFTEN looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday MORNINGS, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, THINKING, 'Oh my GOD, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My HOST FAMILY, the lovely Schumachers, ALWAYS had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were BETTER dressed than anyone I knew in BRITAIN.

I lost my mother and my BROTHER when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at SCHOOL. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those THINGS that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.