I have had the great pleasure of interviewing some remarkable people, from Gordon Ramsay and Julian Lennon to Nate Berkus and Philippe Starck. While Ramsay and Starck played the bad-boy cards, Lennon and Berkus were consummate gentlemen.

This goes to show you never know what you will find as a journalist when the pen is poised and the questions start flying. I've had to say more than once, "Did you mean that to be off the record?" The answer was always, "Oh my, yes; thank you!"