Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.

I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

I miss playing basketball and the city of Portland and the Rose Garden.

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

I take showers, I don't like them because I like baths in very nice jacuzzi or garden tubs.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

On the weekends, some people garden; I slice salmon.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.

I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

A lot of greats from England have fought in New York. I remember when Naseem Hamed fought at Madison Square Garden against Kevin Kelley and knocked him out.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.