I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.