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.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

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

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

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.

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

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.