I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.