I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.